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Illinois Insanity (Law) Insanity (Law) United States Married women Legal status, laws, etc Mentally ill Commitment and detention Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware) 1816-1897 Social reformers United States Women Legal status, laws, etc Women Legal status, laws, etc United StatesTorrey, E. Fuller (Edwin Fuller)
Summary: Beginning in the 1960s in the United States, scores of patients with severe psychiatric disorders were discharged from public mental hospitals. At the same time, activists forced changes in commitment laws that made it impossible to treat half of the patients that left the hospital. The combined effect was profoundly destructive. Today, among homeless persons, at least one-third are severely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2008
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Summary: "1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021