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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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The American Journal of Insanity
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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House documents
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Languages : en
Pages : 638
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Pages : 638
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Transactions
Author: American Medical Association
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
Book Description
List of members in vol. 1-17 and occasional other volumes.
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1242
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List of members in vol. 1-17 and occasional other volumes.
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions
Author: Martin Summers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190852666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution became one of the country's preeminent research and teaching psychiatric hospitals. From the beginning of its operation, Saint Elizabeths admitted black patients, making it one of the few American asylums to do so. This book is a history of the hospital and its relationship to Washington, DC's African American community. It charts the history of Saint Elizabeths from its founding to the late-1980s, when the hospital's mission and capabilities changed as a result of deinstitutionalization, and its transfer from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including patient case files, the book demonstrates how race was central to virtually every aspect of the hospital's existence, from the ways in which psychiatrists understood mental illness and employed therapies to treat it to the ways that black patients experienced their institutionalization. The book argues that assumptions about the existence of distinctive black and white psyches shaped the therapeutic and diagnostic regimes in the hospital and left a legacy of poor treatment of African American patients, even after psychiatrists had begun to reject racialist conceptions of the psyche. Yet black patients and their communities asserted their own agency and exhibited a "rights consciousness" in large and small ways, from agitating for more equal treatment to attempting to manage the therapeutic experience.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190852666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
From the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries, Saint Elizabeths Hospital was one of the United States' most important institutions for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Founded in 1855 to treat insane soldiers and sailors as well as civilian residents in the nation's capital, the institution became one of the country's preeminent research and teaching psychiatric hospitals. From the beginning of its operation, Saint Elizabeths admitted black patients, making it one of the few American asylums to do so. This book is a history of the hospital and its relationship to Washington, DC's African American community. It charts the history of Saint Elizabeths from its founding to the late-1980s, when the hospital's mission and capabilities changed as a result of deinstitutionalization, and its transfer from the federal government to the District of Columbia. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, including patient case files, the book demonstrates how race was central to virtually every aspect of the hospital's existence, from the ways in which psychiatrists understood mental illness and employed therapies to treat it to the ways that black patients experienced their institutionalization. The book argues that assumptions about the existence of distinctive black and white psyches shaped the therapeutic and diagnostic regimes in the hospital and left a legacy of poor treatment of African American patients, even after psychiatrists had begun to reject racialist conceptions of the psyche. Yet black patients and their communities asserted their own agency and exhibited a "rights consciousness" in large and small ways, from agitating for more equal treatment to attempting to manage the therapeutic experience.
Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
Book Description
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1564
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Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
American Journal of Insanity
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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House Executive Documents
Author: U.S. Congress 38th Congress 1st Session
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Languages : en
Pages : 942
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Languages : en
Pages : 942
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 836
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Senate documents
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Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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Languages : en
Pages : 1130
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The Journal of Mental Science
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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