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The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.
The Scattergood Program for the Applied Ethics of Behavioral Healthcare is dedicated to applied research and scholarship in all areas of behavioral healthcare ethics. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania, the ScattergoodEthics Program is a regional and national effort that welcomes all those active in the field of behavioral healthcare.

Commentary

"The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease" by Jonathan Metzl, MD, PhD

"Racial schizophrenia" arose not from individual racism, but from cultural shifts that defined the thoughts, actions and even politics of black men as insane. more...

In the News

Obama's medicalization of America's war on drugs
April 19, 2012

Art Caplan came up with the best explanation I've heard for the disease...
Bioethics and mentally illness: The case of Mary Moe
January 22, 2012

A 32-year-old pregnant woman from Massachusetts, known only as Mary Moe, is at...

UPCOMING

What is Recovery? Ethical Challenges & Clinical Transformations
Friday May 18, 2012

Penn Neuroscience Boot Camp at the Center for Neuroscience & Society
Monday July 30, 2012

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Mental Health Reform in America: A Brief Biography of Thomas Scattergood

Thomas Scattergood had been speaking to fellow Quakers about mental illness. These conversations "awaked a tender, sympathetic feeling for the welfare of this afflicted class"  more...

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