John Summers is a historian in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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John Summers is a historian in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Judge Rotenberg Center, a Massachusetts school, still uses electric shock therapy to punish disabled students. How can an entire field of mental health accept this as fine?
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