Author William Bronston, M.D.'s new book "Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America" is a devastating look at the horrors of life in institutions
Recent release "Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America" from Page Publishing author William Bronston, M.D. takes a hard, investigative look at a New York institution called Willowbrook and the human rights violations that occurred there during the disability rights crisis of the 1970s.
CARMICHAEL, Calif., Dec. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- William Bronston, M.D., an activist and physician, has completed his new book "Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America": in which he lifts the veil and takes on all of America's corrupt institutions. Bronston's early professional California training instilled him with a deep moral, professional, and cultural bond to the huge 6,000-person disabled population he encountered incarcerated in Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York. His compassion led to public mobilization, media exposure, and the federal judicial process that forged the path to what ultimately became the legal conviction for this systemic human abuse and Justice Ruth Ginsburg's subsequent, monumental Supreme Court "Olmstead" decision that framed the rightful foundation for nationwide deinstitutional reform.
Johnathan Sanger, Academy Award-nominated producer of the 1980 film "The Elephant Man" said, "The shocking horrors of Willowbrook State School have been exposed and will never be forgotten. In Doctor William Bronston's defining book, "Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America," he takes on all of America's institutions, the segregated nursing home industry, that have not learned the lesson of the tragedy of Willowbrook. His Muckraking efforts remind one of a latter-day Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, or Jacob Riis. His book is a scathing reminder of all we still have to do to build a sympathetic and just world for the many who are unable to find it for themselves."
Published by Page Publishing, Bronston's eye-opening tale takes readers inside the American, Medicaid-funded institutions that warehoused the "different" population imposed on their stricken families. Having been closed to admission by public scandal and impossible overcrowding, families were blackmailed to have their dependent member submit to secret viral research whose impact was completely unknown, where rampant disease, gruesome sanitation, lack of adequate food, clothing, carloads of tranquilizing medicine, and the most minimal care and supervision was the brutal norm.
Ultimately, concerned parents, caring workers, top child development leaders in the field, and local and national media were organized to expose and address the bureaucratic evil and ubiquitous violence that dominated the wretched lives inside.
Readers who wish to experience this groundbreaking work can purchase "Public Hostage Public Ransom: Ending Institutional America" at bookstores everywhere, or online at the Apple iTunes Store, Amazon, Google Play, or Barnes and Noble.
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