“【Caption】New York City’s plan to expand involuntary hospitalization is the opposite of ‘compassionate care’”◇Adler-Bolton, Beatrice and Artie Vierkant, 2022, "Is Eric Adams Bringing Back the Asylum?", Nation, December 7, 2022, (https://www.thenation.com/article/society/adams-forced-hospitalization/).
“【Caption】Adams calls his new involuntary hospitalization order a “moral mandate” to “deliver for our most vulnerable.” What the policy actually delivers is an era akin to the age of the carceral psychiatric ward.”◇Nair, Aparna and Kylie M. Smith, 2022, "We're Historians of Disability. What We Just Found on eBay Horrified Us.", Slate, July 21, 2022, (https://slate.com/technology/2022/07/vintage-asylum-records-found-on-ebay-history-of-disability.html).
“【Quot.】This intensely personal moment should have stayed a private matter, protected by the institution that admitted her, by the physicians who treated her, and the state that produced the laws that institutionalized her. Once she was no longer a patient, these records should have been cataloged by state archivists who would then regulate access to the extremely sensitive records. Instead, this disabled woman, who could very well be alive today, had her privacy, her pain, her trauma for sale on eBay.[…]As historians of medicine, disability, and psychiatry, we were dismayed recently to find many items like these for sale on eBay.”