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Mad with freedom : the political economy of Blackness, insanity, and civil rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940 / Élodie Edwards-Grossi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Edwards-Grossi, Élodie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Mental health--Southern States--History.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Mental health services--Southern States--History.
- African Americans--Southern States--Psychology--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Southern States--History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Racism in medicine--Southern States--History.
- Racism in medicine.
- Psychiatry--Southern States--History.
- Psychiatry.
- Racism--Social aspects--Southern States--History.
- Racism.
- Mental illness--Southern States--History.
- Mental illness.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Political economy of Blackness, insanity, and civil rights in the U.S. South, 1840-1940
- Place of Publication:
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023]
- Contents:
- The "Sane Slaves": Theories about Madness and Blackness, 1800-1860
- The Strange Career of the 1840 Census Statistics
- The Opening of Psychiatric Institutions for Black Patients in the South, 1860-1880
- Race and Moral Treatment in Asylums and Hospitals in the South, 1870-1940
- The Fabric of Epidemiological Otherness and Pathological Bodies, 1880-1940
- Epilogue: An Everlasting Story: Race and Psychiatry in the United States Today.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 05, 2022).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Edwards-Grossi, Élodie. Mad with freedom
- ISBN:
- 9780807178645
- 0807178640
- 9780807178652
- 0807178659
- Publisher Number:
- 40031541007
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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