File copy of letter from Lucy Gwin to Rhoda Schlamm

Item Information

Title:
File copy of letter from Lucy Gwin to Rhoda Schlamm
Description:
File copy (labeled "Not mailed") of a letter addressed to Rhoda Schlamm soliciting her to read Gwin's new book Bang on the Head. Offers a summary of her accident, resulting brain injury, and advocates for brain injury survivors. Describes hospital and nursing care facilities for head trauma rehabilitation and related economics, including New Medico Head Injury Systems where she received treatment and states she was held there against her will and without due process. Notes this and other similar facilities are unregulated, and describes twice witnessing the rape of her roommate by an aid and two friends once and overhearing rape two other times. Describes life after "escaping" the rehabilitation facility, including Mouth magazine, advocating for patient rights and disability rights, and putting together a class action lawsuit against New Medico.
Creator:
Gwin, Lucy
Addressee:
Schlamm, Rhoda
Date:
May 27, 1990
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 4 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
Lucy Gwin Papers
Subjects:
Amnesia
Brain--Wounds and injuries
Disability, human rights, and society
Nursing home care
Patients--Civil rights
People with disabilities--Abuse of
People with disabilities--Civil rights
People with disabilities--Rehabilitation
Subarachnoid hemorrhage
Writing
Extent:
6 p.
Link to Item:
https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums822-b004-f031-i005
Terms of Use:
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Place of origin:
Rochester (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Notes:
Digitization sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Identifier:
mums822-b004-f031-i005