Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Years Late. Whatever the merits of the current dispute, the trouble is far more deepseated. The institute, set up at a cost of $40 million under the U.S. Public Health Service in 1953, supposedly to conduct farsighted research in mental health and mental illness, was slow to get rolling. Or, as its own staffers might say, its behavior down the years had been schizoid at best, and often catatonic...
...place in the U.S. where a bagful of tranquilizing drugs was most urgently needed last week was the National Institute of Mental Health at Bethesda, Md.-and more for the staff than for the 45 patients...
...Periscope. In Danvers, Mass., a woman patient at the state mental hospital, who once worked willingly as a part-time attendant, began taking tranquilizers and decided she should be paid...
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 2--A psychiatrist said today he would recommend to District Court tomorrow that Gloria and Maria Klemm, 18-year-old indentical twins be committed to a mental hospital for further psychiatric examination...
...Denmark was the first nation in Europe to enact sterilization laws (1929) ; Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland have followed suit. In the first 25 years of Denmark's plan, there were 8,600 sterilizations (in a population of 4,500,000). More than two-thirds were performed on mental defectives, of whom two-thirds were women. Of the 3,663 patients sterilized for reasons other than mental deficiency (e.g., physical deformities, deaf-mutism), seven-eighths were women. In recent years the number sterilized for feeblemindedness has dropped sharply (from 283 to 165 a year), partly because the backlog...