{"id":10490,"date":"2017-06-14T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10490"},"modified":"2021-02-19T19:21:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T03:21:31","slug":"willowbrook-the-institution-that-shocked-a-nation-into-changing-its-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=10490","title":{"rendered":"Willowbrook, the institution that shocked a nation into changing its laws"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><br>Patients needing \u201ctenderness and affection\u201d got the opposite<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Timeline<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Matt Reimann<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>When World War II ended, a large Staten Island facility on 375 acres of land faced an uncertain future. Some believed that Willowbrook should be used for the care of disabled veterans, but ultimately the preferences of New York governor Thomas Dewey won out. Dewey <a href=\"http:\/\/irbmember.web.unc.edu\/files\/2017\/01\/1986_Krugman_Willowbrook.pdf\">argued<\/a> that there were thousands of children in the state who were \u201cmentally and physically defective and feeble minded, who never can become members of society,\u201d who needed to be cared for with a \u201chigh degree of tenderness and affection.\u201d On this last matter, the institution would utterly fail: In the coming decades, Willowbrook would become synonymous for social injustice, moral abhorrence, and the glaring failures of the state psychiatric system. . . [<a href=\"https:\/\/timeline.com\/willowbrook-the-institution-that-shocked-a-nation-into-changing-its-laws-c847acb44e0d\">Full text<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patients needing \u201ctenderness and affection\u201d got the opposite Timeline Matt Reimann When World War II ended, a large Staten Island facility on 375 acres of land faced an uncertain future. 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