{"product_id":"shut-away-catherine-mckercher-9781773100982","title":"Shut Away: When Down Syndrome Was a Life Sentence","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn explosive book that exposes the abuses of institutionalization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How many brothers and sisters do you have?\" It was one of the first questions kids asked each other when Catherine McKercher was a child. She never knew how to answer it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree of the McKercher children lived at home. The fourth, her youngest brother, Bill, did not. Bill was born with Down syndrome. When he was two and a half, his parents took him to the Ontario Hospital School in Smiths Falls and left him there. Like thousands of other families, they exiled a child with disabilities from home, family, and community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe rupture in her family always troubled McKercher. Following Bill's death in 1995, and after the sprawling institution where he lived had closed, she applied for a copy of Bill's resident file. What she found shocked her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on primary documents and extensive interviews, McKercher reconstructs Bill's story and explores the clinical and public debates about institutionalization: the pressure to \"shut away\" children with disabilities, the institutions that overlooked and sometimes condoned neglect and abuse, and the people who exposed these failures and championed a different approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Catherine McKercher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 177310098X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773100982\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Catherine McKercher","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48113719574783,"sku":"9781773100982","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cfc27d7d-febc-439e-9470-f6de3b5fd247.jpg?v=1769616869","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/shut-away-catherine-mckercher-9781773100982","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}