Elizabeth A. Nelson

Elizabeth A. Nelson

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Elizabeth Nelson is an Assistant Professor in the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) and the coordinator of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project.

History

“The Sex Lady Talks”: Disability Rights and the Normalization of Sex in a 1980s Institution

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When recreational therapist Lisa Freeman began working in the Dual Diagnosis Unit at Indiana’s Central State Hospital in 1986, she frequently encountered patients having sex in and around the unit.1 Central State was a long-term psychiatric hospital and the Dual Diagnosis Unit (DDU) served patients who had been diagnosed with both mental illness and intellectual… Read more →