Giving Evidence: Women's Lives in Ashworth Maximum Security Psychiatric Hospital
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Feminism & Psychology
- Vol. 3 (3) , 335-347
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353593033004
Abstract
Based on written evidence given to the Public Inquiry on Ashworth Maximum Security Psychiatric Hospital in Britain, this article graphically documents the conditions of women patients' lives at Ashworth. It exposes systematic abuses of power by hospital staff, and the techniques used to suppress women's resistance to such abuse. A postscript reports on the situation at Ashworth today, in the face of attempts made to implement the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry.Keywords
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