coerced treatment

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>>
>>  What's the practical alternative to "the for-profit nursing home
>>  industry, the adult 'care' industry, the home 'care' industry, state
>>  institutions for the deaf, the blind and the 'incurables'"?  Since
>>  you appear to be arguing against both state & corporate institutions
>>  (as well as anything in-between), what is left?  Families?  Friends?
>>  Living alone?
>>
>
>I am overposting here -- this will be my last one for the day.
>
>Desegregation -- that means quit confining disabled persons to
>institutions and provide the option for one to live in the community
>like nondisabled people do for starters.   Some nondisabled persons
>live with family, some live with friends and some live alone. 
>
>Segregation is the historical reality for disabled persons, and not
>coincidentally the proliferation of institutions coincides with the
>rise of capitalism.
>Marta

That makes sense, but in that case, our argument would be _for_ home 
care necessary for assisted living, directly or indirectly provided 
by the state, & improvement of it for both disabled persons & 
care-giving workers.  Clarifying what disabled persons & care-giving 
workers need helps us better than a broad-brush criticism of the 
medical profession tout court.

Yoshie