Author: Joseph Elmer
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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The Practice in Lunacy
Author: Joseph Elmer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Administrations of Lunacy
Author: Mab Segrest
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620972980
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1620972980
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
"Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
Victorian Lunacy
Author: S. E. D. Shortt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521172820
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521172820
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.
The New Statutes Relating to Lunacy ... With the Practice and Practical Forms ... Also, the Law Respecting Lunatic Asylums, Etc
Author: John Frederick ARCHBOLD
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Leadership as Lunacy
Author: Jacky Lumby
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412974275
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Research has shown that metaphors inspire leaders to reflect on their mind-sets, behaviors, practices, and approaches, leading to new perspectives on their roles. Using such thought-provoking and unexpected metaphors as "leadership as war" and "leadership as lunacy," the authors draw readers through historical perspectives and cognitive possibilities that inspire, resolve, confuse, and provoke reflection on the state of leadership in education. This book examines the current discourse on educational leadership models, behaviors, and roles, and helps school and district leaders
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1412974275
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Research has shown that metaphors inspire leaders to reflect on their mind-sets, behaviors, practices, and approaches, leading to new perspectives on their roles. Using such thought-provoking and unexpected metaphors as "leadership as war" and "leadership as lunacy," the authors draw readers through historical perspectives and cognitive possibilities that inspire, resolve, confuse, and provoke reflection on the state of leadership in education. This book examines the current discourse on educational leadership models, behaviors, and roles, and helps school and district leaders
Journal of Psychological Medicine
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Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Publisher:
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Category : Psychology, Pathological
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Medical Critic and Psychological Journal
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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 772
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The Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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The Jurist
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
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The Supreme Court of Judicature (officers) Act, 1879 (42 & 43 Vict. C. 78)
Author: Great Britain
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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