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Keepers : inside stories from total institutions

Author:

Glouberman, Sholom and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London

Publication date:

1990

Abstract:

The 'keepers' mentioned in the title of this book are workers in prisons, long-stay hospitals, homes for mentally retarded people and other total institutions. Their feelings about their work and about the institutions are presented here in twelve monologues selected from more than 60 interviews with workers in 27 different ...
`Not a penny to call my own' : poverty amongst residents in mental illness and mental handicap hospitals

Author:

Davis, Ann, Educational and Research Association (Disability Alliance), Bradshaw, Martin, and King Edward's Hospital Fund for London

Publication date:

1986

Abstract:

The ways in which hospitals administer patients' money and provide residents with access to their income play a large part in controlling the amount of money a resident can use. Because so little attention has been paid to the financial position of residents in long-stay hospitals it is not know ...