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• Legislation on insanity : a collection of all the lunacy laws of the states and territories of the United States to the year 1883, inclusive : also the law of England on insanity, legislation in Canada on private houses, and important portions of the lunacy laws of Germany, France, etc. / [compiled by] George L. Harrison. (Philadelphia : Press of Globe Printing House, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental health systems act hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on H.R. 4156 ... and H.R. 3986 ... June 14, 25, and 26, 1979. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summaries of state laws relating to the feebleminded and the epileptic, prepared by Samuel W. Hamilton and Roy Haber. (New York, National Committee for Mental Hygiene, 1917, c1918), by Samuel Warren Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• From rights to realities : advocacy by and for retarded people in the 1980's / by Stanley S. Herr. ([Washington] : President's Committee on Mental Retardation, [1979]), by Stanley S. Herr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Report to the President from the President's Commission on Mental Health, 1978. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978-), by United States. President's Commission on Mental Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity. (Rockville, Md. (6100 Executive Blvd., Ste. 5B01, Rockville 20892-7508) : National Bioethics Advisory Commission, [1998-), by United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Psychiatric disabilities, employment, and the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Washington, DC : Office of Technology Assessment : U.S. G.P.O. [distributor, 1994]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental health : hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, first session, on protection of mentally ill persons from abuse and neglect--H.R. 3148, August 2, 1985; examine the nature and extent of phobias and their relation to mental illness oversight, October 11, 1985. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1986), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and the Environment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developmental disabilities act extension and rights of mentally retarded, 1973 hearing, Ninety-third Congress, first session, on S. 427... [and] S. 458.. / February 8, 1973. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1973), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• A draft act governing hospitalization of the mentally ill. [Prepared in the Federal Security Agency by the National Institute of Mental Health and the Office of the General Counsel. (Washington, 1951), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental retardation amendments of 1967. Hearing, Ninetieth Congress, first session, on S. 1099 and H. R. 6430; S. 389. October 11, 1967 (Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Health (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental retardation facilities. Hearings, Ninetieth congress, April 25 and 26, 1967. (Washington, U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1967), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Subcommittee on Public Health and Welfare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leading and select cases on the disabilities incident to infancy, coverture, idiocy, &c. With notes. By Marshall D. Ewell (Boston, Little, Brown, and company, 1876), by Marshall Davis Ewell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amendments to the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, second session, on H.R. 3829 .. hearing held in Washington DC, on March 14, 1984. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1984), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Human Resources (page images at HathiTrust)
• Social security reviews of the mentally disabled hearings before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session, Washington, D.C., April 7 and 8, 1983. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 1983), by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging (page images at HathiTrust)
• Implementing standards to assure the rights of mental patients : proceedings of a symposium, Atlanta, Georgia, June 1-3, 1977 / [summarized by] Harold L. McPheeters ; sponsored by the Southern Regional Education Board and Division of Mental Health Service Programs, National Institute of Mental Health. (Rockville, Md. : U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Mental Health, 1980), by Harold L. McPheeters (page images at HathiTrust)
• Litigation and mental health services / Louis E. Kopolow ... [et al.]. (Rockville, Md. : National Institute of Mental Health, [1975]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research involving persons with mental disorders that may affect decisionmaking capacity. (Rockville, Md. (6100 Executive Blvd., Ste. 5B01, Rockville 20892-7508) : National Bioethics Advisory Commission, [1998-), by United States. National Bioethics Advisory Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Research involving those institutionalized as mentally infirm / the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. ([Bethesda, Md.] : The Commission, [1978]), by United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Developmentally disabled assistance and bill of rights act, 1974 : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session on S. 3378 ... and related bills. May 1, 1974. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Speech of Hon. John M. Clayton, of Delaware, on the veto message of the President, on the bill for the benefit of the indigent insane, in the Senate of the United States, June 15, 1854. (Washington : Congressional Globe Office, 1854), by John M. Clayton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental health and law : a system in transition / by Alan A. Stone, with the assistance of Clifford D. Stromberg. (Rockville, Md. : National Institute of Mental Health, Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency ; Washington : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975), by Alan A. Stone (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mental health systems act, 1979 hearings before the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, first session, on S. 1177 ... May 24 and June 11, 1979. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enforcement of section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act : institutional care and services for retarded citizens : hearing before the Subcommittee on the Handicapped of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-eighth Congress, first session ... November 17, 1983. (Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., Congressional Sales Office], 1984), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on the Handicapped (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insanity and its treatment : lectures on the treatment, medical and legal, of insane patients / By George Fielding Blanford. (New York : W. Wood, 1886), by G. Fielding Blandford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clinical lectures on mental diseases / by T.S. Clouston. To which is added, an abstract of the statutes of the United States and of the several states and territories relating to the custody of the insane, by Charles F. Folsum. (Philadelphia : H.C. Lea's Son, 1884), by T. S. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hospitalization of the mentally ill : an annotated bibliography. (Washington : Federal Security Agency, 1950) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proceedings : symposium on safeguarding the rights of recipients of mental health services, October 17-19, 1977, East Lansing, Michigan / co-sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, Division of Mental Health Service Programs, Mental Health Care & Service Financing Branch, Patient Rights and Advocacy Program [and] Michigan Department of Mental Health, Office of Recipient Rights. ([Rockville, Md.] : National Institute of Mental Health, 1978), by Symposium on Safeguarding the Rights of Recipients of Mental Health Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Legislation relating to care of the mentally ill / Legislative Council staff ; [prepared by Julie Greenberg and James L. Fullin] (Madison, Wis. : Wisconsin Legislative Council, 1979), by Julie Greenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Clinical lectures on mental diseases. To which is added, an Abstract of the statutes of the United States, and of the several states and territories, relating to the custody of the insane, by Charles F. Folsom. (Philadelphia : H. C. Lea's Son, 1884), by Thomas Smith Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Clinical lectures on mental diseases / by T.S. Clouston. (Philadelphia : Lea Brothers, 1897), by T. S. Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur reform des irrenrechtes. Sozialwissenschaftliche rechtsuntersuchungen / von Eduard August Schroeder (Zürich ; Leipzig : Art. institut Orell Füssli, 1891), by Eduard August Schroeder (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clinical lecture on mental diseases. (Philadelphia, H. C. Lea's Son, 1884), by Thomas Smith Clouston (page images at HathiTrust)
• The last suffrage frontier : enfranchising mental hospital residents. (Washington : U.S. Commission on Civil Rights : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States Commission on Civil Rights. Pennsylvania Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• De l'état des aliénés en Belgique, et des moyens d'améliorer leur sort : extrait d'un rapport adressé au ministre de l'intérieur, suivi d'un projet de loi relatif au traitement et a la séquestration des aliénés / par Edouard Ducpetiaux. (Bruxelles : Laurent frères, 1832), by Edouard Ducpétiaux (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Experiences of an Asylum Patient (London: Allen and Unwin, c1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith, ed. by Montagu Lomax (page images at tmc.edu)
• Chapters on the history of the insane in the British isles, by Daniel Hack Tuke. (London, K. Paul, Trench & co., 1882), by Daniel Hack Tuke (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The new statutes relating to lunacy, comprising the law relating to pauper lunatics, with the practice and practical forms, very fully given; also, the law respecting lunatic asylums, public and private, with the duties of the commissioners in lunacy and visiting justices. By John Frederick Archbold ... (London, Shaw and sons, 1854), by Great Britain (page images at HathiTrust)
• Before trial : what should be done by client, solicitor & counsel from a barrister's point of view : together with a treatise on the defence of insanity / by Richard Harris. (London : Waterlow Bros. & Layton, 1887), by Richard Harris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The experiences of an asylum patient / by Rachel Grant-Smith ; with an introduction and notes by Montagu Lomax. (London : G. Allen & Unwin, 1922), by Rachel Grant-Smith (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Insanity and its treatment : lectures on the treatment, medical and legal, of insane patients / By George Fielding Blanford. (New York : W. Wood, 1886), by G. Fielding Blandford (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders: Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon.: Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health, by New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders (Gutenberg ebook)

• Den norske sindssygelovgivning; Forelaesninger, af Paul Winge. (Kristiania, A. W. Brøgger, 1901), by Paul Emanuel Winge (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• District of Columbia Civil Commitment Modernization Act of 2004 : report (to accompany H.R. 4302) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2004]), by United State House Committee on Government Reform (page images at HathiTrust)

• Individual rights and the Federal role in behavior modification a study / prepared by the staff of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session, November 1974. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)
• Individual rights and the federal role in behavior modification : a study / prepared by the staff of the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-third Congress, second session. November, 1974. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1974), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights (page images at HathiTrust)

• A mad world and its inhabitants. (London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1876), by Julius Chambers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia : a full history of the whole affair. A man kept in a dark cage like a wild beast for twenty years, as alleged, in his own mother's and brother's house: ... ([Philadelphia] : C.W. Alexander, 1870) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Movies for the farmers in rural public schools. (Roanoke Rapids, N.C. : Palmetto Press, 1922-) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legal aspects of the enforced treatment of offenders / by R. Kirkland (Rockville, Md. : Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration, National Institute of Health, Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency ; Washington : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979), by Ralph K. Schwitzgebel (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the investigation of the State Commission in Lunacy and the state hospitals for the insane by the subcommittee of the Senate Finance and Assembly Ways and Means Committees. Submitted to the Legislature May 10, 1895. (Albany, J. B. Lyon, state printer, 1895), by New York (State). Legislature. Senate. Committee on Finance (page images at HathiTrust)

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