The Lost Years: From Levin Farm Mental Deficiency Colony to Kimberley Centre

Author: Anne Hunt

Publication date: 2000 Published by: author

364 pages, softcover, black and white photographs, two newspaper clippings included, previous owners’ details written in pen on first and second page, otherwise in very good condition with no rips, creasing, or marks.

A history of the Kimberley Centre south of Levin, an institution for the intellectually disabled. Covers the social and medical thought of the time, and the effects of deinstitutionalisation of the mentally impaired

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