The Continuing Clinicolegal Conundrum of the Boston State Hospital Case |
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| Authors: | Mark J. Mills J.D. M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | Dr. Mills is Co-Director, Program in Psychiatry and the Law, and Chief' Executive Officer, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, 74 Fenwood Road. Boston. Massachusetts 02115, and Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School. |
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| 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. |
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