HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sexual Dysfunction, Insulin, Mad Pride
25 Oct 2017
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Similar to midterm format - mc & long answer (more weight) Know the main point (no details) be able to show understanding. Interrelated concepts - mad pride (mad movement) & neurodiversity. Mentally incapacitated denied right to vote until 1988 in canada. Marriage and reproductive rights limited, forced sterilization of the mentally incapable. They were institutionalized which may threaten property rights (including body) and treatment choices. Recent years have started a movement against this: mad movement . From late 1800"s idiots and lunatics prohibited from entering canada, for fear of degeneracy and dependency (they were undesirable) 1967 canada immigration act - listed people with mental illness in undesirable category of potential immigrants. Mental disorder as basis for deportations (autism) * challenges biomedical model, pushes for rights of mad individuals . * psychiatric systems are clinician centred, not person-centred. * use of restraints, seclusion and forced hospitalization and drugging. * pushed for peer-led alternative to psychiatric system.
