In the last ten to fifteen years a number of procedures for modifying and thus controlling human behavior have gained prominence. The newer drugs and medical therapies and the recent behavior therapy movement have made it possible to change behavior in a relatively efficient, more predictable, and more rapid manner. Consequently, the question of behavior and social control has suddenly emerged as a topic of social concern. At the same time and spurred on by the ominous specter of social control, federal and state legislative bodies, the legal professions, and the health and service professions themselves have rightly begun to question the ethics of the unrestricted use of techniques of social and behavioral control. In order to come to grips with the question, however, we must first define our domain of discourse and the state of the &dquo;art.&dquo; Many of the problems that have arisen and have appeared in the popular press and magazines have been pseudo issues, and the misuse of
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