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In the 1800s, being declared "Incurably Insane" was the easiest way to get out of an asylum... but when you're a perfectly sane woman who has her own thoughts and opinions, goals and motivation, that's exactly what you were: Incurably Insane. Declared such, Elizabeth Packard used her new freedom from the asylum to change legislation and claim human rights for those dubbed insane -- for those those who were and those who weren't. Her life work is still known in US Legislation as Packard's Law.
BIOGRAPHY: The Woman They Could Not Silence, by Kate More
MUSIC: "Im Fruhling" by John Knowles Paine
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In the 1800s, being declared "Incurably Insane" was the easiest way to get out of an asylum... but when you're a perfectly sane woman who has her own thoughts and opinions, goals and motivation, that's exactly what you were: Incurably Insane. Declared such, Elizabeth Packard used her new freedom from the asylum to change legislation and claim human rights for those dubbed insane -- for those those who were and those who weren't. Her life work is still known in US Legislation as Packard's Law.
BIOGRAPHY: The Woman They Could Not Silence, by Kate More
MUSIC: "Im Fruhling" by John Knowles Paine