3 ms·
Perhaps I am revealing my age, but the common narrative from the old times is that involuntary hospitalization was once common in America. This took the form of
by ipnon 4y ago
Perhaps I am revealing my age, but the common narrative from the old times is that involuntary hospitalization was once common in America. This took the form of sanitariums, which in popular media now have a horrible reputation. Sometime around the 70s and 80s this system was dismantled for financial and legal reasons. Is this how those who lived this period see it? That we took a flawed system and replaced it with street anarchy?
- badcppdev 4y agoThere was another story on HN yesterday about Hospice care. So if you take babies, children, mentally ill people, and dying people what percentage of society needs to be protected in some form or another?
- amadeuspagel 4y agoThere's a great Slate Star Codex post on this narrative: https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-prison-and-mental-illness/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/03/07/reverse-voxsplaining-p...
- qohen 4y agoThere were social reasons and developments in psychopharmacology as well -- this Wikipedia page [0] on deinstitutionalization in the US might be worth a quick read or skim. There's also a WP page on the history of deinstitutionalization world-wide [1]. It starts from the 19th century, talking about sanitariums and what happened with them. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalization_in_the_... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation