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A Sketch Of The Life Of Elizabeth T Stone And Of Her Persecutions
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Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T. Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth T. Stone and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This noteworthy book tells the story of the author's life, Elizabeth T. Stone and her experiences being confined in an asylum under the pretense of insanity by her own family. She was admitted to the Charlestown McLean Asylum (now known as the McLean Hospital), and in this book, she lays out some of the horrors that she experienced in the hands of the people who are supposed to care for her.
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth Stone and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions is the story of a woman in an asylum.
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T. Stone
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Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth T Stone and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH T. STONE, AND OF HER PERSECUTIONS by : ELIZABETH T. STONE
Download or read book SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF ELIZABETH T. STONE, AND OF HER PERSECUTIONS written by ELIZABETH T. STONE and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T. Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth T. Stone and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Theaters of Madness by : Benjamin Reiss
Download or read book Theaters of Madness written by Benjamin Reiss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in magnificent structures with lush grounds, patients participated in theatrical programs, debating societies, literary journals, schools, and religious services. Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum’s place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity. Benjamin Reiss explores the creative lives of patients and the cultural demands of their doctors. Their frequently clashing views turned practically all of American culture—from blackface minstrel shows to the works of William Shakespeare—into a battlefield in the war on insanity. Reiss also shows how asylums touched the lives and shaped the writing of key figures, such as Emerson and Poe, who viewed the system alternately as the fulfillment of a democratic ideal and as a kind of medical enslavement. Without neglecting this troubling contradiction, Theaters of Madness prompts us to reflect on what our society can learn from a generation that urgently and creatively tried to solve the problem of mental illness.
Book Synopsis Mental Institutions in America by : Gerald N. Grob
Download or read book Mental Institutions in America written by Gerald N. Grob and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875 examines how American society responded to complex problems arising out of mental illness in the nineteenth century. All societies have had to confront sickness, disease, and dependency, and have developed their own ways of dealing with these phenomena. The mental hospital became the characteristic institution charged with the responsibility of providing care and treatment for individuals seemingly incapable of caring for themselves during protracted periods of incapacitation.The services rendered by the hospital were of benefit not merely to the afflicted individual but to the community. Such an institution embodied a series of moral imperatives by providing humane and scientific treatment of disabled individuals, many of whose families were unable to care for them at home or to pay the high costs of private institutional care. Yet the mental hospital has always been more than simply an institution that offered care and treatment for the sick and disabled. Its structure and functions have usually been linked with a variety of external economic, political, social, and intellectual forces, if only because the way in which a society handled problems of disease and dependency was partly governed by its social structure and values.The definition of disease, the criteria for institutionalization, the financial and administrative structures governing hospitals, the nature of the decision-making process, differential care and treatment of various socio-economic groups were issues that transcended strictly medical and scientific considerations. Mental Institutions in America attempts to interpret the mental hospital as a social as well as a medical institution and to illuminate the evolution of policy toward dependent groups such as the mentally ill. This classic text brilliantly studies the past in depth and on its own terms.
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T. Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth T. Stone and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum by : Michael Rembis
Download or read book Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum written by Michael Rembis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2025-02-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The asylum--at once a place of refuge, incarceration, and abuse--touched the lives of many Americans living between 1830 and 1950. What began as a few scattered institutions in the mid-eighteenth century grew to 579 public and private asylums by the 1940s. About one out of every 280 Americans was an inmate in an asylum at an annual cost to taxpayers of approximately $200 million. Using the writing of former asylum inmates, as well as other sources, Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum reveals a history of madness and the asylum that has remained hidden by a focus on doctors, diagnoses, and other interventions into mad people's lives. Although those details are present in this story, its focus is the hundreds of inmates who spoke out or published pamphlets, memorials, memoirs, and articles about their experiences. They recalled physical beatings and prolonged restraint and isolation. They described what it felt like to be gawked at like animals by visitors and the hardships they faced re-entering the community. Many inmates argued that asylums were more akin to prisons than medical facilities and testified before state legislatures and the US Congress, lobbying for reforms to what became popularly known as "lunacy laws." Michael Rembis demonstrates how their stories 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." The result is a clearer sense of the role of mad people and their allies in shaping one of the largest state expenditures in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--and, at the same time, a recovery of the social and political agency of these vibrant and dynamic "mad writers."
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ... by : Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society ... written by Massachusetts Historical Society. Library and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.). by : Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library. (Prepared by John Appleton.). written by Massachusetts Historical Society (BOSTON, Massachusetts). Library and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society by : John Appleton (M.D.)
Download or read book Catalogue of the library of the Massachusetts historical society written by John Appleton (M.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society by : Anonymous
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Massachusetts Historical Society written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859.
Book Synopsis Nightmare Factories by : Troy Rondinone
Download or read book Nightmare Factories written by Troy Rondinone and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the insane asylum came to exert such a powerful hold on the American imagination. Madhouse, funny farm, psychiatric hospital, loony bin, nuthouse, mental institution: no matter what you call it, the asylum has a powerful hold on the American imagination. Stark and foreboding, they symbolize mistreatment, fear, and imprisonment, standing as castles of despair and tyranny across the countryside. In the "asylum" of American fiction and film, treatments are torture, attendants are thugs, and psychiatrists are despots. In Nightmare Factories, Troy Rondinone offers the first history of mental hospitals in American popular culture. Beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 short story "The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether," Rondinone surveys how American novelists, poets, memoirists, reporters, and filmmakers have portrayed the asylum and how those representations reflect larger social trends in the United States. Asylums, he argues, darkly reflect cultural anxieties and the shortcomings of democracy, as well as the ongoing mistreatment of people suffering from mental illness. Nightmare Factories traces the story of the asylum as the masses have witnessed it. Rondinone shows how works ranging from Moby-Dick and Dracula to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Halloween, and American Horror Story have all conversed with the asylum. Drawing from fictional and real accounts, movies, personal interviews, and tours of mental hospitals both active and defunct, Rondinone uncovers a story at once familiar and bizarre, where reality meets fantasy in the foggy landscape of celluloid and pulp.
Book Synopsis A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions by : Elizabeth T. B. 1811 Stone
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions written by Elizabeth T. B. 1811 Stone and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Download or read book Mad Among Us written by Gerald N. Grob and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1994-02-21 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive one-volume history of the treatment of the mentally ill, the foremost historian in the field compellingly recounts our various attempts to solve this ever-present dilemma from colonial times to the present. Gerald Grob charts the growth of mental hospitals in response to the escalating numbers of the severely and persistently mentally ill and the deterioration of these hospitals under the pressure of too many patients and too few resources. Mounting criticism of psychiatric techniques such as shock therapies, drugs, and lobotomies and of mental institutions as inhumane places led to a new emphasis on community care and treatment. While some patients benefited from the new community policies, they were ineffective for many mentally ill substance abusers. Grob’s definitive history points the way to new solutions. It is at once an indispensable reference and a call for a humane and balanced policy in the future.
