Question

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In the first half of the 1900s asylums (or ‘mental hospitals’) became testing grounds for controversial treatments such as electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) and lobotomy. These methods helped some patients function again, but they seriously harmed others. Such therapies became widely used because doctors and nurses wanted to offer patients cutting-edge treatment, though the results were not always positive.

What do we learn from this passage?

Answer choices:
Asylums were places of peace and understanding for the mentally ill

The mentally ill were sometimes experimented on with treatments that sometimes caused more harm than good

Mentally ill patients were free to come and leave asylums anytime

Lobotomies and ECT always helped each patient

Answer 1

The mentally ill were sometimes experimented on with treatments that sometimes caused more harm than good.

Step-by-step explanation:

This passages points out both the good intentions and the harmful consequences of trying out new treatments on human subjects in the asylums.

It states that the institutions wanted to offer new and effective treatments to the patients, but that these were rudimentary and poorly understood and developed. This lack of refinement led to worse conditions for many of the mentally ill.