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Adopted by the founding convention in Regina, Saskatchewan, July, 1933. The establishment of a commission composed of psychiatrists, psychologists, socially minded jurists and social workers, to deal with all matters pertaining to crime and punishment and the general administration of law, in order to humanize the law and to bring it into harmony with the needs of the people.

The Kinder Scout Mass Trespass Group, 1932.

Mrs Clitherow, Phrenological Chart, no date

FIG. 3. A patient of Heath’s who underwent DBS therapy for schizophrenia.
This plug-in arrangement was a modified version of their initial lead system and consisted of a plastic headpiece fitted with a special connector. Left: Photograph showing the plastic headpiece with an electrode connecter. Wires can be seen going from the connecter lead pins to the scalp. Right: The plastic headpiece is wrapped with dressing, leaving only the connector exposed.

100 Years of Care

FIG. 3. Photograph from an article outlining technical details of the pediatric PEG. The technique included using atropine and codeine for premedication, with Avertin and ether administered throughout the procedure. The child was positioned sitting on a bench with thighs fastened to the bench. The forehead rested on the vertical Potty-Bucky
diaphragm with several pillows and a sandbag on his or her lap built up to rest the chin. This group advocated the use of oxygen instead of room air for injection.

Watchtower at Manzanar

The history of the Tolpuddle martyrs: a group of six agricultural workers from Dorset, England who were sentenced to transportation to Australia for attempting to form a union.

James Watts and staff performing a prefrontal lobotomy.

In February of 1966, Bobbi Gibb (above) received a letter in her mailbox from the organizers of the Boston Marathon. She expected to find her competition number inside the package. Instead she found herself reading a disqualifying letter. It stated that women are “not physiologically able to run a marathon.” The Amateur Athletics Union prohibited women from running farther than 1.5 miles, and the organizers just couldn’t “take the liability” of having her compete.

This long-awaited reader explores the history of Canadian people with disabilities from Confederation to current day. This collection focuses on Canadians with mental, physical, and cognitive disabilities, and discusses the ways in which they lived, worked, and influenced public policy in Canada.

Albie Epere and April Mokomoko at a protest at New Zealand Parliament about abuse of state wards in welfare institutions, June 2016