Caitlin’s Reviews > Asylums, Treatment Centers, and Genetic Jails: A History of Minnesota's State Hospitals > Status Update

First to point out to anyone reading through these, the book scans much larger than it is (only has 213pgs). That being said halfway through is when it starts giving more specific examples as to the conditions people lived in. Reading just a letter justifying the need for a single piece of equipment not being funded for years is saddening. The fight for funding is far from over in current services sectors but wow.

1975. That’s when sterilization was more limited. It took a war to show that people have worth to prove. Sadly, the focus was on utility. Sometimes the recognition of need to change comes from an undesired area or event. I guess at least it provides some kind of catalyst.

Well Minnesota, now I know a little more. It isn’t necessarily shocking at an unknown. But it’s laid out, how it came, how it went and long long it was still encouraged. It’s also interesting to see where it went and adjusted before finally closing its doors publicly.

What I’ve enjoyed is seeing where good intentions can lead when you aren’t questioning. How an idea that starts off as plausible and needed turns into something of a shadow of itself pretending the be the true version.