Rights, Liberty, Medicine Learning Activity
PART ONE: Watch this video from this link: https://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/19/medical_apartheid_the_dark_history_of . There is also a transcript below it. PART TWO: Read the six articles from this link: ARTICLE ONE: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/psychiatric-institutions-are-a-necessity ARTICLE TWO: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/its-best-that-mental-asylums-were-abandoned ARTICLE THREE: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/drug-addiction-cannot-be-decoupled-from-mental-illness ARTICLE FOUR: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/the-mentally-ill-need-supportive-affordable-housing ARTICLE FIVE: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/how-to-keep-the-mentally-ill-from-getting-behind-bars ARTICLE SIX: https://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2016/05/09/getting-the-mentally-ill-out-of-jail-and-off-the-streets/we-need-better-funding-for-mental-health-services PART THREE: Read the section “Categories of Rights and Protections” in reading 4.2, from our text book , this is the link to that section : https://cnx.org/contents/W8wOWXNF@15.8:QScOFkb_@2/Securing-Basic-Freedoms and think about then discuss which areas from that reading apply to two points from the video that you seen in part one and to one point from the six articles that you read in part two . PART FOUR: STEP ONE: Discuss: Does the Lemon Test, Blue Laws, or Free Exercise Clause apply to any of the ideas from the VIDEO, or the SIX ARTICLES STEP TWO: How would you apply the ninth and/or tenth amendment to the issues discussed in the VIDEO, AND the SIX ARTICLES STEP THREE: Name five laws, rulings, or situations that you believe directly contributed to the issues discussed in the VIDEO and explain how you feel they are connected. STEP FOUR: Using one of the issues you discussed in “STEP THREE”, explain how it relates to concerns that were raised in at least one of the SIX ARTICLES.
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