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The Continuing Clinicolegal Conundrum of the Boston State Hospital Case

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Mark J. Mills
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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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Medicolegal News , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 9 - 18
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 1981

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