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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital. Modern psychiatric hospitals evolved from and eventually replaced the older lunatic asylum.
17 Δεκ 2019 · Asylums were permeable institutions, both in the sense that patients could be admitted, discharged, and re-admitted, and in the way asylums were influenced by, and also affected, their social and political environment.
In the United States, individuals with differences including intellectual and/or developmental disabilities and mental health conditions were isolated from their communities and families in institutions and asylums.
5 Αυγ 2023 · Before modern psychiatric hospitals, insane asylums detained countless mentally ill patients, criminals, and other "undesirables" in brutal conditions. Some of these facilities held 10 times as many patients as they were meant to accommodate, with some unruly inmates being kept in cages in hallways.
13 Δεκ 2013 · FROM ASYLUMS TO “THE INSANITY OF PLACE”. Asylums, a pioneering ethnography conducted in the 1950s, is a powerful indictment of total institutions and the abuses inmates suffer from conniving relatives, self-serving professionals, and poorly supervised custodial personnel.
According to the United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, asylum seekers are persons petitioning for protection outside their country of origin because of a well-founded fear of being persecuted on account of their race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion. 5 Persecution ...
14 Μαρ 2018 · The campaign beginning within asylum medicine in the late 1830s to abolish the devices and practices of mechanical restraint (known as the non-restraint movement) was for a small minority the first step towards the abolition of seclusion as well—this small minority recast both practices as abuses.
