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Excerpt from: Modern Persecution, or Married Woman's Liabilities So long as insanity is treated as a crime, instead of a misfortune, as our present system practically does thus treat it, the protection of our individual liberty imperatively demands such an enactment. Many contend that every person is insane on some point. On this ground, all persons are liable to be legally imprisoned, under our present system; for intelligent physicians are everywhere to be found, who will not scruple to give a certificate that an individual is a Monomaniac on that point where he differs from him in opinion! This Monomania in many instances is not insanity, but individuality, which is the highest natural development of a human being.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Modern Persecution, or Married Woman's Liabilities | |
| From: | Modern Persecution | |
| Creator: | Elizabeth P. W. Packard (author) | |
| Date: | 1873 | |
| Format: | Book | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | volume 2 | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Andrew McFarland; Asylums; Attendants; Autobiography; Bloomingdale Asylum; Chicago, IL; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Clergy; Confinement; Connecticut; Correspondence; Doctors; Economics; Elizabeth Packard; Employment; Expose; Family; Feminism; Friendship; Government; Government Agencies; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Identity; Illinois; Illinois State Hospital For The Insane; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Iowa; Jurisprudence; Legislation; Marriage; Massachusetts; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; New York; New York City, NY; Parenting; Physical Disability; Politics; Prejudice; Psychiatric Disability; Public Welfare; Religion; Restraints; Sexuality; Slavery; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; Spiritualism; Theophilus Packard; Treatments Therapies Cures; Women & Gender |
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- "How Can I Live Without My Children!" (still)
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- Dr. McFarland's Self-Accusation (still)
- Dr. McFarland Punishing One-Armed Wyant (still)
- Enforcing The "Nonentity" Principle (still)
- Governor Carpenter Signs Bill (still)
- Illinois State Senate (still)
- Insane Asylum, Jacksonville, Illinois (still)
- Kidnapping Mrs. Packard (still)
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- Modern Persecution, or Married Woman's Liabilities (doc)
- Mr. Morrison's Interview With The Governor (still)
- Mrs. Packard's Home (still)
- Not Alienated (still)
- Popular Mode Of Curing Insanity! (still)
- Theophilus Packard In 1862 And 1872 (still)
- The Re-united Family (still)
