Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880Condition: NewEAN: 9781469648446ISBN: 9781469648446Publisher: The University of North Carolina PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 30/03/2019Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 155mmAuthor: Wendy GonaverLanguage: EnglishDescription: Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the Unites 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 both accept 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryTopic: Medicine, Society & Culture, Social Sciences, Gender Sex & RelationshipsRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 184
Publication Name: The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 184
Title: The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 184
EAN: 9781469648446
ISBN: 9781469648446
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback
Release Year: 2019
Release Date: 30/03/2019
Item Height: 235mm
Item Length: 155mm
Author: Wendy Gonaver
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships
