Asylums 1: Elizabeth Packard and the Weaponization of Women’s Mental Health
Broadly Underestimated04/15/22 • 37 min
Soon after waking up one morning in 1860, Elizabeth Packard, a 40-year-old mother of six, was ambushed by two doctors who broke into her room. Her husband Theophilus had been threatening to commit her to an asylum for quite a while. And now he was finally making good on his promise.
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04/15/22 • 37 min
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