The Courts v. The Common Man

At the time of independence (1947) Pakistan with a population of 40 million had three asylum-like hospitals with a total of less than 2000 beds. The hospitals were prison-like and they provided custody with little care. Patients were mostly brought in chains. Detention and reception orders were used for admission as provided in law and the law was and continues to be the Lunacy Act of 1912. The common man referred to them as pagal-khanas (mad houses) or jail hospitals. The doctors appointed were mostly general duty doctors with no training and often no interest in psychiatry and their average stay was two to three years. In place of nurses there was a cadre of attendant staff, most of them illiterate, untrained and acting more like police sepoy or jail warder than nurse.

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Education and Confidence in the Common Man

The Educational Forum ◽

10.1080/00131724309340902 ◽

1943 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 23-28

Author(s):

T. R. McConnell

Keyword(s):

The Common ◽

Common Man

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Slavery

Enterprise & Society ◽

10.1017/s1467222700007291 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 9 (03) ◽

pp. 491-506 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robin L. Einhorn

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Property Rights ◽

The United States ◽

Individual Property ◽

Public Power ◽

History Of ◽

The Common ◽

Common Man ◽

The Relationship ◽

Individual Property Rights

The history of slavery cannot be separated from the history of business in the United States, especially in the context of the relationship between public power and individual property rights. This essay suggests that the American devotion to “sacred” property rights stemsmore from the vulnerability of slaveholding elites than to a political heritage of protection for the “common man.”

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A Survey on Conceptions of Stuttering

Rehabilitation Process and Outcome ◽

10.4137/rpo.s12755 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

pp. RPO.S12755

Author(s):

Nachiketa Rout ◽

Suman Kumar ◽

Navnit Kumar

Keyword(s):

Treatment Options ◽

Culturally Specific ◽

Economic Class ◽

Speech Language Pathologist ◽

Mental Problem ◽

Genetic Problem ◽

The Common ◽

Common Man

The conceptions about stuttering vary amongst cultures. Culturally specific findings regarding stuttering help in understanding the peoples' views and conceptions about stuttering and devising awareness and counselling strategies. A total of 132 passengers on the Coromandal Express from Chennai to Howrah participated in this study. All of them belonged to the upper middle socio-economic class. Preliminary Stuttering Conception Questionnaire (PSCQ) was used to understand their conceptions of stuttering. 23% had no idea and 12% had myths about the etiology of stuttering. 11% assumed it was a genetic problem and 5—6% a physical-mental problem. 31% had no idea of treatment options. 25% preferred medicine, 23% rehabilitation for treatment of stuttering. For rehabilitation, only 45% precisely knew about the speech language pathologist; the remaining 55% were unaware of this profession. Steps need to be taken towards educating the common man about stuttering.

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