Seenthrough the eyes of the patients who livedthere, Inside Oregon StateHospital examines the world ofthe Northwest's oldest mental hospital, established in 1883. In desperateattempts to cure their patients, physicians injected them with deadlymedications, cut holes in their heads, and sterilized them. Years ofinsufficient funding caused the hospital to decay into a crumbling facilitywith too few staff, as seen in 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 andforensic mentally ill. In this compelling account of the institution'stragedies and triumphs, author Diane Goeres-Gardner offers an unparalleled lookat the very human story of Oregon's historic asylum.
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