The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880 /

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"Argues that slavery and race relations in the South shaped the theory and practice of early psychiatry. The book examines continuities in psychiatric treatment that provided for the gradual expansion of the state's power of involuntary confinement. The impact of these continuities continu...

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Autor principal: Gonaver, Wendy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social medicine.
Slavery > Social aspects.
Psychiatry > Social aspects.
Psychiatry > Political aspects.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Medical policy.
Discrimination in medical care.
MEDICAL > History.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Discrimination dans les soins medicaux > États-Unis > Histoire.
Politique sanitaire > États-Unis > Histoire.
Psychiatry > history
Psychiatric hospitals > United States > History.
Psychiatry > Social aspects > United States > History.
Psychiatry > Political aspects > United States > History.
Discrimination in medical care > United States > History.
Medical policy > United States > History.
Social medicine > United States.
Slavery > Social aspects > United States.
Psychiatry > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
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  • No peculiar strictness is observed: slavery and innovation
  • As the eagle to the sparrow: enslaved attendants and caregiving
  • Servants, obey your masters: religion and resistance
  • Now she is choked: gender and violence
  • So different: the asylum and the civil war
  • Not a human being: reconstruction and racism.

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