Author: Publisher:
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Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Administrations of Lunacy
Author: Mab SegrestPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620972980
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
The New Statutes Relating to Lunacy
Author: Manual of Lunacy
Author: Lyttleton Forbes WinslowPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108063497
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
Published in 1874, an enlightening yet disturbing insight into the treatment of the mentally ill in the late nineteenth century.
The Lunacy Acts
Author: The Practice in Lunacy
Author: Joseph ElmerPublisher:
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The Practice in Lunacy Under Commissions and Inquisitions, with Notes of Cases and Recent Decisions
Author: Joseph ElmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Poor Law of Lunacy
Author: Peter BartlettPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0718501047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.
Manual of Lunacy: a Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane
Author: Lyttleton WinslowPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844148
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
The New Statutes Relating to Lunacy ... With the Practice and Practical Forms ... Also, the Law Respecting Lunatic Asylums, Etc
Author: John Frederick ARCHBOLDPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The Lunacy Regulation Act (1853), and the General Orders in Lunacy; with an Introduction and Copious Index. (Forming a Supplement to the "Outline of the Practice in Lunacy.").
Author: Joseph ElmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description