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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880
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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840–1880 [electronic resource] / Wendy Gonaver.
ISBN
1469648466
9781469648460
9781469648439 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781469648446 (pbk : alk. paper)
Published
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Summary
"Argues that slavery and race relations in the South shaped the theory and practice of early psychiatry. The book examines continuities in psychiatric treatment that provided for the gradual expansion of the state's power of involuntary confinement. The impact of these continuities continues to be seen in contemporary health practices for women, African Americans, the indigent, and prisoners"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2019 Complete
Project MUSE - 2019 American Studies
Project MUSE - 2019 Psychology
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 09, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
No peculiar strictness is observed: slavery and innovation
As the eagle to the sparrow: enslaved attendants and caregiving
Servants, obey your masters: religion and resistance
Now she is choked: gender and violence
So different: the asylum and the civil war
Not a human being: reconstruction and racism.
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