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American Snake Pit : Hope, Grit, and Resilience in the Wake of Willowbrook by Dan Tomasulo (2018, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherStillhouse Press

ISBN-101945233028

ISBN-139781945233029

eBay Product ID (ePID)239575095

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Publication Year2018

Book TitleAmerican Snake Pit : Hope, Grit, and Resilience in the Wake of Willowbrook

TopicGeneral

Number of Pages270 Pages

LanguageEnglish

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Psychology

AuthorDan Tomasulo

FormatTrade Paperback

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-956893

SynopsisIn 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual disabilities closed its doors for good. Flat broke and almost finished with graduate school, Dan Tomasulo -- now a core faculty member at Columbia University's Spirituality Mind Body Institute -- was hired to relocate Willowbrook's most severely disabled inhabitants into a groundbreaking community-based group home. American Snake Pit is the story of the disregarded souls who ended up in Tomasulo's care; of the eccentric, resilient staff who helped make such a momentous success possible; and, most of all, of one man's persistent struggle to give voices to those who could not advocate for themselves.

LC Classification NumberMLCS 2023/43998 (R)