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  2. Involuntary treatment - Wikipedia

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    Man in restraint chair in an English asylum in 1869. In the early 20th century, many countries passed laws allowing the compulsory sterilization of some women. In the US more than half the states passed laws allowing the forced sterilization of people with certain illnesses or criminals as well as sterilization based on race. [7]

  3. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental ...

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    Each individual has a due process protected interest in freedom from confinement and personal restraint; an interest in reducing the degree of confinement continues even for those individuals who are properly committed. freedom from undue physical restraint and from unsafe conditions of confinement 14th 1975 O'Connor v. Donaldson

  4. Medical restraint - Wikipedia

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    Some trusts hardly use restraints, others use them routinely. A female patient was in several hospitals and units at times for a decade with mental health issues, she said in some units she was restrained two or three times daily. [30] Katharine Sacks-Jones director of Agenda, maintains trusts use restraint when alternatives would work.

  5. Seclusion and restraint practices in the U.S. education system

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    Seclusion and restraint are often misused in both public and private schools causing severe injury and trauma for students. restraint and seclusion are often used as punishment for minor behavioral problems. [3] [4] These issues have caused people to call the practices a human rights issue, disabled rights issue, and civil rights issue. There ...

  6. False imprisonment - Wikipedia

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    False imprisonment does not require a literal prison, but a restriction of the claimant's freedom of movement (complete restraint). According to the Termes de la Ley , 'imprisonment is the restraint of a man's liberty, whether it be in the open field, or in the stocks, or in the cage in the streets or in a man's own house, as well as in the ...

  7. Physical restraint - Wikipedia

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    A survey in the US in 1998 reported an estimated 150 restraint related deaths in care environments (Weiss, 1998). Low frequency fatalities occur with some degree of regularity. [3] An investigation of 45 restraint related deaths in US childcare settings showed 28 of these deaths were reported to have occurred in the prone position. [3]

  8. Potter Box - Wikipedia

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    The Potter Box is a model for making ethical decisions, developed by Ralph B. Potter, Jr., professor of social ethics emeritus at Harvard Divinity School. [1] It is commonly used by communication ethics scholars. According to this model, moral thinking should be a systematic process and how we come to decisions must be based in some reasoning.

  9. Anti-competitive practices - Wikipedia

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    Anti-competitive behavior can be grouped into two classifications. Horizontal restraints regard anti-competitive behavior that involves competitors at the same level of the supply chain. These practices include mergers, cartels, collusions, price-fixing, price discrimination and predatory pricing.