Author: United States. Dept. of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior
Author: United States. Dept. of the InteriorPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
Report from the Acting Secretary of the Treasury, Communicating the Annual Report of the Commissioner of the General Land Office
Author: United States. General Land OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public lands
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions
Author: Martin SummersPublisher: 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.
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 1526
Book Description
Checklist of United States Public Documents, 1789-1909
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1748
Book Description
Checklist of United States Public Documents 1789-1909
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1750
Book Description
House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 836
Book Description
House Executive Documents
Author: U.S. Congress 38th Congress 1st SessionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 942
Book Description
Executive and Legislative Documents
Author: North CarolinaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 1400
Book Description
Annual Report of the Library Board to the Virginai State Library to which is Appended the Annual Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports
