If it’s true that “men moralise among ruins,” as Benjamin Disraeli wrote, the ruins of America’s nineteenth-century mental institutions should invite some serious reflection. Built between 1850 and ...

An anthropologist who specializes in the study of traditional medical systems believes the vision and legacy of one progressive physician were so influential that more than 100 years later they are ...

This year marks the second anniversary of President Barack Obama’s executive order reversing U.S. policies regarding detainees captured in armed conflict. Presidential Order 13491 set minimal ...

The calls to invoke civil involuntary commitment laws for people with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) are getting louder in communities with a marked increase of overdose deaths. Preliminary data ...

“A sleeping man having a nightmare featuring a blue mare astride a giant turtle brandishing a sword and lobster” (~1855), magic lantern slide from Saint Elizabeths Hospital, Washington, DC (courtesy ...

Update published 5/13/2023 2:20 p.m.: Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1580 into law, giving Florida healthcare providers and insurers the right to deny treatment to patients on the basis of moral, ...

When you drive up to the former Utica State Hospital Building in West Utica, the Greek Doric Portico and its imposing columns are what mesmerize and inspire, yet there is more to the fondly referred ...

This post is the first of three looking at the implications of Darwin's theory of evolution for some of the most important topics in applied ethics, including suicide and euthanasia, and the proper ...

Do the mentally ill deserve asylum? Over at City Journal, I look at the history of our nineteenth-century “Kirkbride” institutions and the consequences of closing the asylums through a process known ...