26 juill. 1816 - Elizabeth Ware Packard and the campaign for patients’ rights
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Packard, from a young age, experienced trance-like symptoms and headaches. In 1935, aged just 19, she was briefly committed to a Massachusetts asylum with “brain fever”Her husband, fearful of the impact her radical religious views would have upon his career and reputation, had her confined to an asylum in Illinois in 1860 with the help of a physician he knew. After founding the Anti-Insane Society, Packard vocalised her unjust treatment in her various books on the subject of confinement and mental illness, including Modern Persecution; Or, Insane Asylums Unveiled, Marital Power Exemplified, or Three Years Imprisonment for Religious Belief, Great Disclosure of Spiritual Wickedness in High Places, The Mystic Key or the Asylum Secret Unlocked Its sales led to her regaining financial independence, and she used the ensuing publicity to campaign successfully for changes to the ways individuals were committed to asylums. The reforms, called Packard Laws, increased the number of people involved in the commitment process. Individuals could no longer be forcibly confined on the testimony of a few.
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26 juill. 1816
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~ Il y a 209 ans