At the same time, the patients were kind of 'exposed' and that is kind of unethical. If she were to go into the facility and be upfront and say that 'hey I'm doing research and not really mental' she wouldn't get the correct research and the patients would probably shun her or protest what she was doing.

For the most part, they are just normal human beings who have reached a 'fork' in the road.Ĭonsidering the situation, we think that what she did was totally ethical. There is also a big misconception about the type of people in the facilities. Drug companies have a big say in what the hospitals give out to the patients the doctors practically shove the drugs down the patients throats even if they do not need them. It is a highly underfunded area as far as public facilities go and that at some facilities the patients are treated very unkindly and unfairly. We have greatly improved our knowledge of this topic from reading this book. None of us have had relatives in a mental hospital, so we are not directly related and will not be affected emotionally by this book. These may sound mean, but people have biased opinions because they are undereducated about a subject, so they make up their own views and put wrong thoughts into there heads. In general, a bias towards mental patients are that they are crazy, depressed, loud, and unclean. Otherwise, Neil and Alecia have no previous knowledge of the ethnography and are pretty much clueless.

She wrote a paper on Schizoprenia and did research on the subject for about a year. The only person who has really been 'exposed' to the topic of mental hospitals is Krissy. We all went into this book with an open mind, since we haven't had any experiences that would make us think differently. We haven't been brought up to be 'shun' the mentally ill, but since we haven't been exposed to the patients, we might be a little scared of the patients. Our demographics don't really affect how we will read the book. We feel undereducated about it, so the topic sparks our interest and makes us actually want to know more. Most people have no clue what goes on in mental facilities/institutions, and this book will be a great way to gain more insight on the topic. Overall, we think that this topic is extremely interesting. įor our lit circle project, we are going to be reading Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent. 'Review: Voluntary Madness by Norah Vincent'. 'The Story of a Mental Hospital:Fulbourn, 1858-1983'. Ortho-McNeil-Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Janssen, 'Mental Wellness - History of Mental Illness'. 'Norah Vincent on 'Voluntary Madness'' Interview with Book TV.

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