Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 A Tangled Web of Ethical Threads. 2 A Hypothetical Case: The Individual's Right to Be Different versus the State's Right to Protect and Improve Itself. 3 Avoiding Responsibility and Assuming It. 4 The Case for Controls versus the Right to Refuse Treatment. 5 Insanity: Its Defenses, Defenders, and Detractors. 6 A Closing Note: Lessons of History, Mythology, and Psychology. Bibliography. Index.