Author: Virginia. Central State Hospital, Petersburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Report of the Board of Directors and Medical Superintendent of the Central Lunatic Asylum (for Colored Insane)
Author: Virginia. Central State Hospital, Petersburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 744
Book Description
Mad with Freedom
Author: Élodie Edwards-Grossi
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807178640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807178640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
The use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Élodie Edwards-Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual history of early psychiatric theories that defined the Black body as a locus for specific pathologies. Edwards-Grossi also reveals the subtle, localized techniques of resistance later employed by Black patients to confront medical power. Her work shows the continuous politicization of science and theories on insanity in the context of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow South.
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army ...
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Virginia. Central State Hospital, Petersburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army
Author: United States Army. Library of the Surgeon General's Office (Washington).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880
Author: Wendy Gonaver
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South. She reveals these connections through the histories of two asylums in Virginia: the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, the first in the nation; and the Central Lunatic Asylum in Petersburg, the first created specifically for African Americans. Eastern Lunatic Asylum was the only institution to accept both slaves and free blacks as patients and to employ slaves as attendants. Drawing from these institutions' untapped archives, Gonaver reveals how slavery influenced ideas about patient liberty, about the proper relationship between caregiver and patient, about what constituted healthy religious belief and unhealthy fanaticism, and about gender. This early form of psychiatric care acted as a precursor to public health policy for generations, and Gonaver's book fills an important gap in the historiography of mental health and race in the nineteenth century.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469648458
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. In this book, Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments, showing how slavery and ideas about race shaped early mental health treatment in the United States, especially in the South. She reveals these connections through the histories of two asylums in Virginia: the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Williamsburg, the first in the nation; and the Central Lunatic Asylum in Petersburg, the first created specifically for African Americans. Eastern Lunatic Asylum was the only institution to accept both slaves and free blacks as patients and to employ slaves as attendants. Drawing from these institutions' untapped archives, Gonaver reveals how slavery influenced ideas about patient liberty, about the proper relationship between caregiver and patient, about what constituted healthy religious belief and unhealthy fanaticism, and about gender. This early form of psychiatric care acted as a precursor to public health policy for generations, and Gonaver's book fills an important gap in the historiography of mental health and race in the nineteenth century.
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1018
Book Description
Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ...
Author: Virginia
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description