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Writing mad lives in the age of the asylum / Michael Rembis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rembis, Michael A., 1970- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatric hospital patients--United States--History--19th century.
- Psychiatric hospital patients.
- Psychiatric hospital patients--United States--History--20th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History--19th century.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History--20th century.
- Mentally ill, Writings of the, American--History and criticism.
- Mentally ill, Writings of the, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (319 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
- Summary:
- 'Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum' describes a history of madness and the asylum by focusing on the inmates who published pamphlets, memorials, memoirs, and newspaper and magazine articles about their experiences. Michael Rembis draws from these sources, as well as their letters, public speeches, and testimonies before state legislatures and the US Congress to demonstrate how the stories they told influenced popular, legal, and medical conceptualizations of madness and the asylum at a time when most Americans seemed to be groping toward a more modern understanding of the many different forms of 'insanity.'
- Contents:
- Cover
- Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1: Claiming Madness
- 2: Committing Violence
- 3: Writing and Work
- 4: Exposing Abuses
- 5: Reforming the System
- 6: Reckoning with Physicians
- 7: Surviving Treatments
- 8: Forging Friendships
- 9: Helping Each Other
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Chapter 1
- Chapter 2
- Chapter 3
- Chapter 4
- Chapter 5
- Chapter 6
- Chapter 7
- Chapter 8
- Chapter 9
- Selected Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 17, 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9780197604861
- 0197604862
- 9780197604847
- 0197604846
- OCLC:
- 1461742796
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