Author: Elizabeth T. Stone
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This noteworthy book tells the story of the author's life, Elizabeth T. Stone and her experiences being confined in an asylum under the pretense of insanity by her own family. She was admitted to the Charlestown McLean Asylum (now known as the McLean Hospital), and in this book, she lays out some of the horrors that she experienced in the hands of the people who are supposed to care for her.
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions
Author: Elizabeth T. Stone
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This noteworthy book tells the story of the author's life, Elizabeth T. Stone and her experiences being confined in an asylum under the pretense of insanity by her own family. She was admitted to the Charlestown McLean Asylum (now known as the McLean Hospital), and in this book, she lays out some of the horrors that she experienced in the hands of the people who are supposed to care for her.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 65
Book Description
This noteworthy book tells the story of the author's life, Elizabeth T. Stone and her experiences being confined in an asylum under the pretense of insanity by her own family. She was admitted to the Charlestown McLean Asylum (now known as the McLean Hospital), and in this book, she lays out some of the horrors that she experienced in the hands of the people who are supposed to care for her.
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions
Author: Elizabeth T. Stone
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions" by Elizabeth T. Stone. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions" by Elizabeth T. Stone. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions
Author: Elizabeth Stone
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781985393967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions is the story of a woman in an asylum.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781985393967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions is the story of a woman in an asylum.
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions
Author: Elizabeth T Stone
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781296815363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Publisher: Andesite Press
ISBN: 9781296815363
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions
Author: Elizabeth T. Stone
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental illness
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH T. STONE, AND OF HER PERSECUTIONS
Author: ELIZABETH T. STONE
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033601259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033601259
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Theaters of Madness
Author: Benjamin Reiss
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226709655
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226709655
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
Mental Institutions in America
Author: Gerald N. Grob
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351505718
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.).
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ...
Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description