The peculiar institution and the making of modern psychiatry, 1840-1880 / Wendy Gonaver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gonaver, Wendy, author.

Series:

North Carolina scholarship online.

North Carolina scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galt, John M. (John Minson), 1819-1862.

Galt, John M.

Eastern Lunatic Asylum (Va.).

Eastern Lunatic Asylum of Virginia.

Central Lunatic Asylum (Richmond, Va.).

Black people--Medical care--Virginia--History--19th century.

Black people.

Black people--Medical care--United States--History--20th century.

Discrimination in medical care--United States--History--19th century.

Discrimination in medical care.

Social medicine--Virginia--History--19th century.

Social medicine.

Medical policy--United States--History--19th century.

Medical policy.

Psychiatric hospitals--United States--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2020.

Summary:

Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the US only after 1800, just as the struggle to end slavery took hold. Wendy Gonaver examines the relationship between these two historical developments.

Contents:

No peculiar strictness is observed: slaver 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 normalization of violence

So different: the asylum and the civil war

Not a human being: reconstruction and racism.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 5, 2019).

ISBN:

979-88-908504-7-8

1-4696-4845-8

979-88-908504-8-5

1-4696-4846-6