title: [The Gang of Six Demands more Freedom. Juvenile Offenders Interned in Saint-Jean-de-Dieu, Mid-20th Century].
abstract: In recent years, we have worked with many psychiatric records kept by the Archive Services of the Institut universitaire en santé mentale de Montréal (IUSMM). The proposed article is focused on the February 12th 1959 document Assemblée des médecins located within the records of six illegitimate children admitted to the Hôpital Saint-Jean-de-Dieu in the late 1950s. Our study, inspired by the work of historian Roy Porter and his approach from below, contributes to the historical discourse seeking to incorporate patient's voices, in this case, a gang of young offenders identified by a life course shaped by repeated institutional experience.
authors.affiliation: Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne en santé, Université d'Ottawa.
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Desmeules
authors.affiliation: École des sciences infirmières; Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne en santé; Institut de recherche de l'Hôpital Montfort, Faculté des sciences de la santé, Université d'Ottawa.
authors.forename: Marie-Claude
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Thifault
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000299:Adolescent, Institutionalized; D057237:Criminals / Q000266:history*; D005610:Freedom; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D010379:Peer Group; D011792:Quebec