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Authority To Restrain The Insane
The question must then arise, in each particular case, whether a person’s own safety or that of others requires that he should be restrained for a certain time, and whether restraint is necessary for his restoration, or will be conducive thereto....
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Title: Authority To Restrain The Insane
Creator: n/a
Date: January 1846
Format: Article
Publication: American Journal of Insanity
Source: Available at selected libraries
Location: vol.2, no.3, pp.225-234
Keywords: Advocacy; Asylums; Boston, MA; Civil Liberties & Rights; Confinement; Doctors; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Health & Medicine; Insanity; Institutions; Jurisprudence; Laws & Regulation; Marriage; Massachusetts; McLean Hospital For The Insane; Medicine & Science; Moral Treatment; Professional Associations; Psychiatric Disability; Punishments; Restraints; Social Welfare & Communities; Treatments Therapies Cures
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy