title: Commentary & analysis: the Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill: its genesis and its legacy.
abstract: As a follow-up to the preceding article first published in the February 1953 issue, Paul Appelbaum, M.D., offers a commentary and analysis on the revised Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill. He includes its psychiatric context in the five-year period between 1951 and 1955 and later developments related to involuntary commitment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA. appelbap@ummhc.org
authors.forename: P S
authors.initials: PS
authors.lastname: Appelbaum
mesh_terms: D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D007883:Legislation, Medical / Q000266:history; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D010332:Paternal Behavior; D014481:United States