Mental Hospitals Redux: Again?
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 17, Number 03, September/October 2015 , pp.33-35(3)
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Abstract:
Decades after the widespread closing of psychiatric hospitals and the “de-institutionalization” of the mentally ill, a “re-institutionalization” is taking place—in settings not designed and ill-equipped for the job: prisons and jails. Ethicists, historians, and professors weigh in on this hint of a movement to consider the return of the longterm institution.Keywords: National Association of State Mental Health Directors; Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); “The Modern Asylum” by Christine Montross
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1: Executive Editor.