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Mad Yankees : the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and nineteenth-century psychiatry / Lawrence B. Goodheart.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Retreat for the Insane at Hartford--History.
- Retreat for the Insane at Hartford.
- History.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Connecticut--History--19th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Connecticut.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- Ironies of institutionalization
- Origin of the asylum
- Eli Todd, apostle of moral medicine
- The paradox of curative treatment
- The therapeutic imperative of Amariah Brigham
- The impoverished insane
- John S. Butler and the reinvention of the retreat
- The emergence of eugenics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-206) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1558494057
- OCLC:
- 52509482
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