Mad with Freedom : The Political Economy of Blackness, Insanity, and Civil Rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 /

"Élodie Edwards-Grossi's Mad with Freedom explores the largely unknown social history of racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. Edwards-Grossi analyzes the medicalization of the Black body from the 1840s until the 1920s, revealing the politicization of science and psychi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Edwards-Grossi, Élodie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism in medicine.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatric hospitals.
Mental illness.
African Americans > Psychology.
African Americans > Mental health services.
African Americans > Mental health.
Maladies mentales > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Racisme > Aspect social > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Racisme en medecine > Histoire.
Noirs americains > États-Unis (Sud) > Psychologie > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Services de sante mentale > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Sante mentale > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Mental illness > Southern States > History.
Racism > Social aspects > Southern States > History.
Psychiatry > Southern States > History.
Racism in medicine > Southern States > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Southern States > Psychology > History.
African Americans > Mental health services > Southern States > History.
African Americans > Mental health > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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