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    Inside Oregon State Hospital: A History of Tragedy and Triumph

    by Diane Goeres-Gardner, John Terry (Foreword by)


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    • ISBN-13: 9781626190405
    • Publisher: The History Press
    • Publication date: 05/21/2013
    • Series: Landmarks
    • Pages: 256
    • Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)


    Diane L. Goeres-Gardner is a fifth-generation Oregonian whose ancestors came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Tillamook County. She is the award-winning author of four books, including Necktie Parties: Legal Executions in Oregon, 1851-1905 and Murder, Morality, and Madness: Women Criminals in Early Oregon. John Terry is a retired journalist whose career, starting in 1963 with the Salem Capital Journal, spanned 50 years. For 15 years starting in 1997 he wrote a weekly column on Oregon history for The Oregonian.

    Table of Contents

    Foreword John Terry 9

    Acknowledgements 13

    Introduction 15

    Superintendents 19

    Oregon State Hospital Timeline 21

    1 The Case of Charity Lamb 27

    2 The Case of Malinda Applegate 39

    3 The Calbreath Years 71

    4 Three Decades of Superintendent Steiner 95

    5 The Case of James R. Robblet 129

    6 The Triumph of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair 149

    7 The Tragedy of George Nosen 172

    8 The Case of Reverend David C. Snider 181

    9 The Case for Lobotomy 199

    10 In and Out of the Cuckoo's Nest 208

    11 The Case of "Tunnel Therapy" 229

    12 A Hospital Not a Prison 238

    13 Financial and Forensic Failures 264

    14 Finding the Cremains and Earning a Pulitzer 292

    15 A New Beginning 303

    Epilogue 319

    Appendix I Official Statistics for OSH, 1884-1956 321

    Appendix II Population Statistics at OSH, 1900-1959 323

    Index 325

    About the Author 335

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    Seen through the eyes of the patients who lived there, Inside Oregon State Hospital" examines the world of the Northwest's oldest mental hospital, established in 1883. In desperate attempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadly medications, cut holes in their heads, and sterilized them. Years of insufficient funding caused the hospital to decay into a crumbling facility with too few staff, as seen in the 1975 film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." Today, after a $360 million makeover, Oregon State Hospital is a modern treatment hospital for the state's civil and forensic mentally ill. In this compelling account of the institution's tragedies and triumphs, author Diane Goeres-Gardner offers an unparalleled look at the very human story of Oregon's historic asylum."

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