From Mad in Deutschland: Anyone who talks about fundamental rights should not overlook psychiatry. It is precisely here that the state and institutions intervene deeply in people’s lives: through accommodation, isolation, fixation, compulsory treatment and decisions that directly affect freedom, the body and everyday life. Hardly any other place shows so clearly how serious a society is about human dignity, equality before the law and personal freedom. It is precisely in this field that the right to informational self-determination also gets its full weight. It protects the sovereignty through its own most sensitive data, especially through health data. Where this threshold falls away, help quickly turns into control. (1)(2)
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