Reviews in Medical Ethics: “Choice and Dignity”: A Review of the Website of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

The Willowbrook litigation pioneered the movement for establishing minimum standards for the health, safety, and human rights of persons in psychiatric and mental retardation institutions. For a detailed account see Rothman D. J. and Rothman S. M. , The Willowbrook Wars (New York: Harper and Row, 1984).

Rouse v. Cameron, 373 F.2d 451 (D.C. Cir. 1966), recognized a right to appropriate treatment under the relevant D.C. statute, and Lake v. Cameron, 364 F.2d 657 (D.C. Cir. 1966), held that this meant treatment in the least restrictive alternative setting.

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Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law website, at <http://www.bazelon.org/> (last visited June 21, 2006).

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Americans with Disabilities website, at <http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm> (last visited June 21, 2006).

United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission website, at <http://www.eeoc.gov/> (last visited June 21, 2006).

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NAMI, National Alliance on Mental Illness, at <http://www.nami.org/> (last visited June 21, 2006).