institutionalization
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MOCA’s permanent collection exhibitions show how, when the museum was founded in the late 1970s, it represented something wholly new: the beginning of L.A. art’s full-scale institutionalization.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2025
The third piece of the Cicero platform is to expand civil commitment laws, which permit the involuntary hospitalization or institutionalization of people with mental illnesses.
From Slate ● Jan. 22, 2025
I would support any effort toward stronger institutionalization of services — health services, mental health care, job training, post-incarceration care — separate from the criminal justice system.
From Salon ● Sep. 15, 2024
Her uncle took the secret of his mother’s institutionalization to his grave, Arnold said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Thus the informal Torricellian network marks the effective beginning of the institutionalization of science, driven by the conviction that collaboration and exchange would lead to more rapid progress.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
