Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385606217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester. December, 1837
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385606217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385606217
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
Twenty-fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Free Public Library of New Bedford
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385559898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Worcester State Hospital
Author: Worcester State Hospital
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Vol. for -1913/14 include Report of Worcester State Asylum.
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Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Vol. for -1913/14 include Report of Worcester State Asylum.
Annual Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital at Taunton
Author: Taunton Lunatic Hospital
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Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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Annual Report of the Board of Managers of the Prison Discipline Society
Author: Prison Discipline Society (Boston, Mass.)
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Category : Prisons
Languages : en
Pages : 1262
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Reports and Other Documents Relating to the State Lunatic Hospital at Worcester
Author: State Lunatic Hospital (Worcester, Mass.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Genetics in the Madhouse
Author: Theodore M. Porter
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691203237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
"In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing the need to curb the reproduction of the insane. They became obsessed with identifying weak or tainted families and anticipating the outcomes of their marriages. Genetics in the Madhouse is the untold story of how the collection and sorting of hereditary data in mental hospitals, schools for 'feebleminded' children, and prisons gave rise to a new science of human heredity. In this compelling book, Theodore Porter draws on untapped archival evidence from across Europe and North America to bring to light the hidden history behind modern genetics. He looks at the institutional use of pedigree charts, censuses of mental illness, medical-social surveys, and other data techniques--innovative quantitative practices that were worked out in the madhouse long before the manipulation of DNA became possible in the lab. Porter argues that asylum doctors developed many of the ideologies and methods of what would come to be known as eugenics, and deepens our appreciation of the moral issues at stake in data work conducted on the border of subjectivity and science. A bold rethinking of asylum work, Genetics in the Madhouse shows how heredity was a human science as well as a medical and biological one"--Jacket.
The Medical Examiner
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Author: Massachusetts. General Court. House of Representatives
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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