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Excerpt from: Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled "No, Mr. Packard, I shall not help myself into an asylum. It is you who are putting me there. I do not go willingly, nor with my own consent -- I am being forced into it against my protests to the contrary. Therefore, I shall let you show yourself to this crowd, just as you are -- my persecutor, instead of my protector. I shall make no resistance to your brute force claims upon my personal liberty -- I shall simply remain a passive victim, helpless in your power."... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled | |
| From: | Modern Persecution | |
| Creator: | Elizabeth P. W. Packard (author) | |
| Date: | 1873 | |
| Format: | Book | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Location: | volume 1 | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Andrew McFarland; Asylums; Attendants; Autobiography; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Clergy; Confinement; Death; Doctors; Economics; Elizabeth Packard; Employment; Expose; Family; Feminism; Food; Government; Government Agencies; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Identity; Illinois; Illinois State Hospital For The Insane; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Jurisprudence; Legislation; Marriage; Massachusetts; Media; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Newspapers; Poetry; Prejudice; Psychiatric Disability; Religion; Restraints; Sexuality; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; Spiritualism; Suicide; Sunday School; Theophilus Packard; Treatments Therapies Cures; Women & Gender |
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- Governor Carpenter Signs Bill (still)
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