Author: Alma Wynelle Deese
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462073034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's first asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky. Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility. Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.
Kentucky's First Asylum
Author: Alma Wynelle Deese
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462073034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's first asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky. Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility. Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1462073034
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's first asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky. Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility. Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.
Report of the First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, (at Lexington, Kentucky), for the Year Ending Sept. 30, 1873
Author: First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (Lexington, Ky.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Report of the First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, (at Lexington, Kentucky), for the Year Ending September 30, 1873
Author: Kentucky Lunatic Asylum
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Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Annual Report of the First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, (at Lexington, Kentucky), for the Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 1875
Author: First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (Lexington, Ky.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Languages : en
Pages : 29
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Semi-centennial Report of the First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, (at Lexington, Kentucky,) for the Fiscal Year Ending Sept. 30, 1874
Author: First Kentucky Lunatic Asylum (Lexington, Ky.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Languages : en
Pages : 31
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Annual Report of the Central Kentucky Lunatic Asylum [Anchorage, Kentucky) ...
Author: Kentucky. State Hospital, Lakeland
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Languages : en
Pages : 20
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Special Report on the Lunatic Asylums of Kentucky
Author: R. A Miller (of Kentucky.)
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Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Category : Psychiatric hospitals
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Thirty-third Annual Report of the Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane, Lakeland, Ky., for the Year Ending September 30, 1905
Author: Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Souvenir (of the ) Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane, Lakeland, Ky
Author: Central Kentucky Asylum for the Insane (Lakeland, Ky.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Annual Report of the Western Kentucky Lunatic Asylum ...
Author: Kentucky. State Hospital, Hopkinsville
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Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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