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Apartheid psychiatry: segregation, confinement, and publication limits
WHO report Apartheid and Mental Health Care (MNH/77.5, 1977); APA Special Committee visit report (Am J Psychiatry 136:1498, Nov 1979) confirming "grossly inferior" care and "needless deaths" among Black patients; RCPsych special committee 1983; Anti-Apartheid Movement…
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 4
- Country / period
- South Africa, 1970s–1980s
- Mechanism
- Racially segregated institutional confinement; private contractor (Smith, Mitchell & Co.) holding mostly Black long-stay patients; statutory restriction on publishing about institutions
- What is documented
- WHO report Apartheid and Mental Health Care (MNH/77.5, 1977); APA Special Committee visit report (Am J Psychiatry 136:1498, Nov 1979) confirming "grossly inferior" care and "needless deaths" among Black patients; RCPsych special committee 1983; Anti-Apartheid Movement campaign for WPA expulsion; 1976 Mental Health Amendment Act criticized as restricting publication about institutions
- Finding or status
- International official reports (AAM archive, "Which way WPA?"; Rhodes University thesis, 1989; BJPsych International review)
- Contrary evidence / limits
- Documented as structural neglect and segregation, not confinement of named dissidents; the publication-restriction claim is a LEAD to verify against the 1976 Act's text
- Label
- VERIFIED (reports); LEAD (statute)
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Reference and provenance
1977-ZA-APARTHEID-PSYCHIATRY