... Fairview Hospital and Training Center Judge Rotenberg Educational Center violence diagnosis power ...

... This section explores white Western diagnosis, starting with the author’s experiences of being diagnosed with mental retardation in 1966 at Oregon’s Fairview Hospital and Training Center and a decade later with cerebral palsy. This story underlines the power of diagnosis, which can both provide...

... examines the political fabrication of feebleminded. The section then turns to the ways in which case files can be dehumanizing, exploring those dynamics at Oregon’s Fairview Hospital and Training Center and Michigan’s Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Then the analysis moves to the word...