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Ten Years After: Evolving Mental Health Advocacy And Judicial Trends, Michael L. Perlin
Ten Years After: Evolving Mental Health Advocacy And Judicial Trends, Michael L. Perlin
Fordham Urban Law Journal
"Address to the Mental Health Legal Advocacy Symposium, "Current Issues in Law and Psychiatry," New York, New York, May 30, 1985." This speech provides an overview of trends in mental disability law as they evolved from 1972 to 1982. It also explores social, economic, and political developments impacting on mental health advocacy, and looks at both seminal supreme court cases and lower courts' responses. It finds an ambivalent Supreme Court without a clear position on many issues related to mentally disabled individuals.
Aids Law: Impact Of Aids On American Schools And Prisons, The , Elizabeth B. Cooper
Aids Law: Impact Of Aids On American Schools And Prisons, The , Elizabeth B. Cooper
Faculty Scholarship
The American public largely has responded with fear and hostility rather than with knowledge and compassion to the presence of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ("AIDS") in society. Although our reactions are changing as we learn more about the syndrome and its causitive virus, some people continue to characterize AIDS as a well-deserved punishment of those groups most often afflicted with AIDS: gay men and intravenous drug users. Many people also persist in their erroneous beliefs that AIDS can be spread through casual contact. Although much remains to be learned about AIDS, there already exists an abundance of information upon which …