Word: lunacyã
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...Foucault argues, governments initially began the practice of managing “lunacy?? toward the end of the Middle Ages, creating asylums for those whose behavior was deemed abnormal. With little scientific understanding of mental illness, “lunatic” was a broadly defined label that too frequently included the deaf, the mute, and the intellectually slow. “Treatment” meant squalid living conditions and physical abuse. Beginning in the 18th century, some steps were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well...
...Black’s universe of compassionate conservatism, a kinder, gentler pepper spray or water cannon might be in order. The benefits of FTAA should be so obvious that only social “misfits” and “foreign carriers of the anti-American lunacy?? are apt to challenge its triumph. This week’s issue of U.S. News & World Report noted that security police had apparently taken such advice to heart and were indeed searching for less violent techniques to deal with incipient anti-FTAA unrest; but one Miami shop clerk claimed...
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