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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Edwards-Grossi, Élodie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The "Sane Slaves": Theories about Madness and Blackness, 1800-1860
  • The Strange Career of the 1840 Census Statistics
  • The Opening of Psychiatric Institutions for Black Patients in the South, 1860-1880
  • Race and Moral Treatment in Asylums and Hospitals in the South, 1870-1940
  • The Fabric of Epidemiological Otherness and Pathological Bodies, 1880-1940
  • Epilogue: An Everlasting Story: Race and Psychiatry in the United States Today.

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