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About this book
A look inside the historic mental hospital that served as the location for
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest—includes photos.
Seen through the eyes of those who lived there, this book examines the world of a mental hospital established in Salem, Oregon, in 1883—where, 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, understaffed facility, which was later used as the setting for 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.
Seen through the eyes of those who lived there, this book examines the world of a mental hospital established in Salem, Oregon, in 1883—where, 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, understaffed facility, which was later used as the setting for 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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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Superintendents
- Oregon State Hospital Timeline
- 1. The Case of Charity Lamb
- 2. The Case of Malinda Applegate
- 3. The Calbreath Years
- 4. Three Decades of Superintendent Steiner
- 5. The Case of James R. Robblet
- 6. The Triumph of Dr. Bethenia Owens-Adair
- 7. The Tragedy of George Nosen
- 8. The Case of Reverend David C. Snider
- 9. The Case for Lobotomy
- 10. In and Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest
- 11. The Case of “Tunnel Therapy”
- 12. A Hospital Not a Prison
- 13. Financial and Forensic Failures
- 14. Finding the Cremains and Earning a Pulitzer
- 15. A New Beginning
- Epilogue
- Appendix I. Official Statistics for OSH, 1884–1956
- Appendix II. Population Statistics at OSH, 1900–1959
- About the Author