From a report in Slant 22 after the anti-medicine conference in Birmingham, 4-12 July, 1968:
The conference concluded with a resolution unanimouosly approving full patient control over the conduct of surgical operations, and with a decision to establish an anti-hospital from which doctors would be excluded and which, in place of the usual, banal and inhumane routine of curative drugs, would permit patients, under democratic-participatory controls, to choose their own anatomical life-styles (with or without various body parts) and to infect one another with germs in order to experience the transcendentally liberating effects of serious disease.
