The Continuing Clinicolegal Conundrum of the Boston State Hospital Case
- 1 April 1981
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Medicolegal News
- Vol. 9 (2) , 9-18
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1981.tb00642.x
Abstract
Whatever powers the Constitution has granted our government, involuntary mind control is not one of them….[S]ubjecting a patient to the humiliation of being disrobed and then injected with drugs powerful enough to immobilize both body and mind is totally unreasonable by any standard.Keywords
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