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Reviews in Medical Ethics: “Choice and Dignity”: A Review of the Website of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Susan Herrick
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The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law (the Center), founded as the Mental Health Law Project by a group of attorneys and mental health professionals, has been a major advocacy force promoting the civil rights of persons with mental disabilities since the 1972 New York Willowbrook litigation.

Named for D. C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge David L. Bazelon, whose opinions first articulated the principles that the mentally disabled have a right to treatment in the least restrictive alternative setting, the Center has actively pursued greater rights for the mentally disabled in housing, education, and federal entitlements such as Medicaid, as well as in treatment-related issues.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 34 , Issue 3 , Fall 2006 , pp. 629 - 631
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2006

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