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Return of the asylum [PDF]

open access: yesThe British Journal of Psychiatry, 2018
SummaryRates of involuntary admission are increasing in England. Personality disorder should be excluded as a criterion for involuntary admission; stronger restraint reduction programmes should be instigated; and involuntary care should be based on treating illness (something we can do) and not on predicting violence (something we cannot).Declaration ...
Brendan D. Kelly, Jane Gilhooley
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The Asylums of Europe [PDF]

open access: yesThe Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1880
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An Impossible Asylum

open access: yesThe American Mathematical Monthly, 2023
In 1982, Raymond Smullyan published an article, "The Asylum of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," that consists of a series of puzzles. These were later reprinted in the anthology, "The Lady or The Tiger? and Other Logic Puzzles." The last puzzle, which describes the asylum alluded to in the title, was designed to be especially difficult. With the help
Jeremy Avigad   +4 more
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DETENTION IN ASYLUMS [PDF]

open access: yesThe Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1884
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The ‘Where’ of Asylum [PDF]

open access: yesEnvironment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2009
Does law produce spaces where it no longer applies? Does it, in other words, set up spaces of lawlessness? The question seems almost rhetorical given the growing body of work inspired by Agamben's notions of the camp' and state of exception'. Indeed, in the past decade or so, this question has been guiding much research in various disciplines, with ...
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EPSOM ASYLUMS. [PDF]

open access: yesThe Lancet, 1908
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The enduring asylum [PDF]

open access: yesQJM, 2006
‘Loonies’, they shouted from the back of the coach. ‘Loonies!’ I can't remember if we had reached the gates of the mental hospital yet, but I was excruciatingly embarrassed, and I prayed that they would stop. It didn't help me very much that I understood, to an extent, what had provoked some of the students in my year to such cruel mockery. It was 1974.
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