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Excerpt from: Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts I proceed, gentlemen, briefly to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within this Commonwealth, in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens! Chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.... |  Read Full Text |
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| Title: | Memorial To The Legislature of Massachusetts | |
| From: | The History of Mental Retardation, Collected Papers | |
| Creator: | Dorothea L. Dix (author) | |
| Date: | 1843 | |
| Format: | Government Document | |
| Publisher: | University Park Press | |
| Source: | Available at selected libraries | |
| Keywords: | Abuse; Advocacy; Aging; Almshouses; Asylums; Benevolence; Children; Civil Liberties & Rights; Cognitive Disability; Confinement; Dorothea Dix; Expose; Government; Government Agencies; GOVERNMENT, POLICY & LAW; Health & Medicine; Hospitals; Idiocy; Insanity; Institutions; INSTITUTIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & CORPORATIONS; Laws & Regulation; Legislation; MASS MEDIA, CULTURE & THE ARTS; Massachusetts; Media; Memorials; Moral Treatment; Neglect; Policy; Politics; Poverty; Prison; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health & Welfare; Public Welfare; Religion; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & ADVOCACY; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Welfare & Employment |
