All Posts Tagged With: "criminal insanity"
The Shame of Medicine: Alan Turing Redux
In my May 2009 column I recounted the tragic story of the medical-legal persecution of the famed British mathematician and World War II code breaker Alan Turing. In June, John Graham-Cumming, a British computer programmer, created a petition on the “No. 10 Downing Street” website asking for a government apology for Turing’s mistreatment. On September [...]
24Feb2010 | Thomas Szasz | 1 comment | Continued-
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