Essays on asylums for persons of unsound mind

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), issuing body.

Series:

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century.

History of Disabilities: Disabilities in Society, Seventeenth to Twentieth Century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (22 pages).

Place of Publication:

1850

Summary:

The History of Disabilities program provides access to primary sources written using terminology that was in common use by the medical establishment and general society at the time, and describes diagnoses, methodologies, procedures, and treatments that may no longer be used or were debunked by later research. Users may come across words and expressions describing individuals and groups that they find condescending, upsetting, disconcerting, offensive, and not acceptable today. MiFhGG

Notes:

"The two essays ... are reports, which were presented to the Association of medical superintendents of American institutions for the insane ... in June, 1850 ... The first ... has been already published in the 'American journal of insanity'."--Pref.

Reproduction of the original from the New York Academy of Medicine.

OCLC:

1313245940