{"id":1074,"date":"2018-12-19T23:24:15","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2018-12-19T23:24:15","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T23:24:15","slug":"1946-gordan-zahns-slaves-or-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1946-gordan-zahns-slaves-or-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"1946: Gordan Zahn&#8217;s &#8220;Slaves or Patients?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1076\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1076\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1076\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.08-PM-300x237.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.08-PM-300x237.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.08-PM-676x533.png 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.08-PM.png 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Zahn&#8217;s &#8220;Slaves or Patients&#8221; describing the work program\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2\">https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1077\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1077\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1077\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.28-PM-300x148.png\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2\" width=\"300\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.28-PM-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.28-PM-676x334.png 676w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/Screen-Shot-2018-12-19-at-6.20.28-PM.png 760w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Excerpt from Zahn&#8217;s &#8220;Slaves or Patients?&#8221; pleading for the people of Maryland to protest\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2\">https:\/\/www.disabilitymuseum.org\/dhm\/lib\/detail.html?id=1720&amp;&amp;page=2<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This article by Zahn published in <em>The Catholic Worker<\/em> called \u201cSlaves or Patients?\u201d argues for the rights of individuals with disabilities. The article discusses, just as the title puts it, if these individuals are being treated like patients or like slaves within mental institutions they are forced into. Zahn\u2019s article focuses specifically on \u201cThe Rosewood State Training School\u201d in Maryland, with over a thousand patients who span \u201cthe idiot class to high level moron or borderline cases\u201d, as the article says (Zahn 1946). Zahn states that the patients are being treated more like slaves as they are being forced into these institutions and being forced to work 12-hour days with no pay at all. Zahn\u2019s plea and goal through writing this article seems to be for the larger population to fight for the rights of individuals with disabilities and to help them out of the horrible conditions of training schools like Rosewood State. It is gravely important that it was published in <em>The Catholic Worker,<\/em> as it was a popular journal in the mid 1900s and therefore could reach a large population and exploit what the reality of these training schools were at this time. It is powerful for Zahn&#8217;s concluding point to be a call for protest and support for these individuals who currently have no little voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article by Zahn published in The Catholic Worker called \u201cSlaves or Patients?\u201d argues for the rights of individuals with disabilities. The article discusses, just as the title puts it,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/1946-gordan-zahns-slaves-or-patients\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3886,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175468],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dori-auslander"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3886"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}