HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Leonard Roy Frank, Mad Pride, Neurodiversity
14 Dec 2017
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From late 1800s, idiots and lunatics prohibited form entering canada for fear of degeneracy and dependency: until 1967, canada immigration act listed people with mental illness in. Undesirable category of potential immigrants: mental disorder as basis for deportation (eg. autism) Professor teaching in australia, had son who was diagnosed with autism (seen as too much of burden to society, and child was deported) prof had a choice to follow family, or abandon them. Eugenic movement: marriage and reproductive rights limited, forced sterilization, in alberta and bc, laws passed that made forcible sterilization of individuals in psyche hospital. Recent years have seen increased organization to change to marginalization. Challenges biomedical model, pushes for rights of made individuals: suggests there are alternate ways of expressing their position in society, psychiatric systems are clinician centred, not person-centered. Push for peer-led alternative to psychiatric system: help people minimize interaction with official psychiatric system.
