Christmas in Purgatory: A Photographic Essay on Mental Retardation

This classic photo essay of legally sanctioned human abuse in state institutions was written and photographed (1965) long before the current right-to-treatment lawsuits on behalf of institutionalized people.

• Author
• Burton Blatt, Fred Kaplan

• Format
• spiral-bound

• Pages
• 121

• Publisher
• Human Policy Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780937540008

• Genres
• history, research, photography

• Release date
• 1974