Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness write by Peter McCandless. This book was released on 2013-12-01. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless shows how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. He also sheds new light on the ways sectionalism and race affected the plight of the insane in a state whose fortunes worsened markedly after the Civil War. Antebellum asylum reformers in the state were inspired by many of the same ideals as their northern counterparts, such as therapeutic optimism and moral treatment. But McCandless shows that treatment ideologies in South Carolina, which had a majority black population, were complicated by the issue of race, and that blacks received markedly inferior care. By re-creating the different experiences of the insane--black and white, inside the asylum and within the community--McCandless highlights the importance of regional variation in the treatment of mental illness.
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Magic
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Magic - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moonlight, Magnolias, and Magic write by Gilbert Katherine (author). This book was released on 1901. Moonlight, Magnolias, and Magic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Mad with Freedom
Mad with Freedom - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mad with Freedom write by Élodie Edwards-Grossi. This book was released on 2022-11-02. Mad with Freedom available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions write by Martin Summers. This book was released on 2019-07-10. Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution became one of the country's preeminent research and teaching psychiatric hospitals. From the beginning of its operation, Saint Elizabeths admitted black patients, making it one of the few American asylums to do so. This book is a history of the hospital and its relationship to Washington, DC's African American community. It charts the history of Saint Elizabeths from its founding to the late-1980s, when the hospital's mission and capabilities changed as a result of deinstitutionalization, and its transfer from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including patient case files, the book demonstrates how race was central to virtually every aspect of the hospital's existence, from the ways in which psychiatrists understood mental illness and employed therapies to treat it to the ways that black patients experienced their institutionalization. The book argues that assumptions about the existence of distinctive black and white psyches shaped the therapeutic and diagnostic regimes in the hospital and left a legacy of poor treatment of African American patients, even after psychiatrists had begun to reject racialist conceptions of the psyche. Yet black patients and their communities asserted their own agency and exhibited a "rights consciousness" in large and small ways, from agitating for more equal treatment to attempting to manage the therapeutic experience.
Moonlight and Magnolias
Moonlight and Magnolias - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Moonlight and Magnolias write by Grand Theatre Collection (University of Guelph). This book was released on 2006. Moonlight and Magnolias available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
