Huronia’s lessons: how ableist violence determines health

Jen Rinaldi

Chapter 12 in Handbook on the Social Determinants of Health, 2025, pp 154-165 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter applies an ecological model of violence to present total institutionalization as a mode of ableist structural violence that has adverse health outcomes. The author illustrates her argument through a review of the historical records kept at the Huronia Regional Centre, Canada’s oldest and largest institution to house children and youth with intellectual disabilities diagnoses from 1876 until 2009. The author was part of a team that collected and organized Huronia’s records for an open access digital archive that tells Huronia’s story from the vantage point of the institution’s survivors. These records reveal population-level adverse health outcomes and provide evidence of individual resident experiences that connect institutional abuse to health impacts.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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