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Author : Hiram Chase
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum, from August 20th, 1863, to December 20th, 1865 written by Hiram Chase and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiram Chase
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331932324
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum written by Hiram Chase and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-25 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum: From August 20th, 1863, to December 20th, 1865 Another reason which has deterred me from giving to the world the history of those two years, is the fact, that a number of inmates of lunatic 'asylums in this country have given to the public their views of asylum life, and one especially, who was in the asylum at Utica, and discharged just before I entered it. I could not help noticing the effect these productions produced on society. In many instances the history was read only to laugh, and pity the insanity of the writer. This case referred to, was a lady from Syracuse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Chase Hiram
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318094325
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (943 download)
Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum from August 20th, 1863 to December 20th, 1865 written by Chase Hiram and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Michael Rembis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197604838
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
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."
Author : Janet Miron
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802095135
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Prisons, Asylums, and the Public written by Janet Miron and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prisons and asylums of Canada and the United States were a popular destination for institutional tourists in the nineteenth-century. Thousands of visitors entered their walls, recording and describing the interiors, inmates, and therapeutic and reformative practices they encountered in letters, diaries, and articles. Surprisingly, the vast majority of these visitors were not members of the medical or legal elite but were ordinary people. Prisons, Asylums, and the Public argues that, rather than existing in isolation, these institutions were closely connected to the communities beyond their walls. Challenging traditional interpretations of public visiting, Janet Miron examines the implications and imperatives of visiting from the perspectives of officials, the public, and the institutionalized. Finding that institutions could be important centres of civic activity, self-edification, and 'scientific' study, Prisons, Asylums, and the Public sheds new light on popular nineteenth-century attitudes towards the insane and the criminal.
Author : Atwood D. Gaines
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403615
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Ethnopsychiatry written by Atwood D. Gaines and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1992-08-17 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book outlines a "new ethnopsychiatry," one that considers popular or folk ethnomedicines and professional psychiatric systems in the same discourse, effacing the traditional distinction between psychiatry and ethnopsychiatry. The essays in this volume are from a diverse, interdisciplinary group representing history, psychology, sociology, and medicine, as well as anthropology. The author view both ethnomedical practices and illness as local cultural constructions. They consider ideologies and institutions from both professional and popular ethnopsychiatric systems in America, Western Europe, South Africa, the Caribbean, Japan, and India. The book demonstrates that professional and popular psychiatric medicines lie along the same local cultural continua, that professional, "scientific" psychiatries and less formalized systems of local popular psychology are epistemological relatives, aspects of common cultural discourses on normality and abnormality. The essays reject the notion of a universal, uniform reality of psychopathology beyond cultural boundaries, but the data strongly support the cultural and historically constructed nature of ethnopsychiatry, in its illness, ideologies, and institutions. Contributors to this volume include Amy V. Blue, Thomas Csordas, Ellen Dwyer, Paul E. Farmer, M.D., Atwood D. Gaines, Helena Jia Hershel, Janis Jenkins, Pearl Katz, Thomas Maretzki, Naoki Nomura, Charles Nuckolls, Kathryn Oths, Lorna Amarasingham Rhodes, and Leslie Swartz.
Author : Graham Mooney
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042026324
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Permeable Walls written by Graham Mooney and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects attention from medical history's more traditionally studied constituencies, patients and doctors. Covering the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions. However, policies towards visitors have varied from outright exclusion, as in the case of some isolation hospitals in Victorian Britain, to near open access in the first Chinese missionary hospitals. Historical studies of visitors and visiting, as a result, tell us much about the changing relationship between healthcare institutions and the communities they serve. These histories are particularly relevant at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients' representatives in healthcare decision making; to control hospital super-bugs; and to make the hospital environment accessible yet safe and secure. With the re-emergence of restricted visiting, the subject remains one of the most emotive topics in the history of institutional medicine.
Author : Clare Barker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107087821
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
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Author : Joseph Sabin
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Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 582 pages
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Sabin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3846047422
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Books relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1870.
Author : Joseph Sabin
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Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Americana written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hiram Chase
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum written by Hiram Chase and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiram Chase's 'Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum' is a haunting and poignant memoir that delves into the author's personal experiences during his time as a patient in a psychiatric institution. The book is written in a candid and introspective style, giving readers a raw glimpse into the harsh realities of mental health treatment in the 19th century. Chase's narrative is filled with vivid descriptions of the asylum's bleak environment, as well as the inner turmoil and struggles he faced while grappling with his own mental illness. This work stands out as an important piece of historical literature, shedding light on the stigmatization and mistreatment of the mentally ill during this time period. As a first-hand account, it offers valuable insights into the mindset of both patients and caregivers, making it a compelling read for those interested in the history of psychiatry and mental health care. Hiram Chase's courageous decision to share his story reflects his deep empathy for others suffering from mental illness, making this memoir a poignant and thought-provoking exploration of human resilience and vulnerability.
Author : Ellen Dwyer
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Homes for the Mad written by Ellen Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rev. H. Chase
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ISBN 13 : 9781500446574
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum written by Rev. H. Chase and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I regard this as the unvarnished statement of facts. In my opinion this narrative should be printed and widely circulated." -Chas. Devol, M.D. "I know men in the asylum who were thrown in there by their friends, under some peculiar influence, who have been there from six to fifteen years; and they are the same now as when they entered it, not insane, but perhaps a little eccentric, or may entertain some notions on religion or philosophy that are not regarded orthodox. They are in good health, perfectly harmless, and, so far as I could judge, would make better inhabitants than one-fourth of the people that are at large. "The question now arises--"What would you have done to remedy the evil of putting men and women in the asylum that should never go there?" My answer is, that I would so change the laws that two inexperienced quack doctors could not govern the destinies of the people of a whole county. I would first require that those men who are to decide on the fate of their neighbors should be men of experience and discretion, and that there should be at least five of them in a county, chosen by the people for that purpose; I would also require that the patient be brought before a jury of twelve men, who shall decide the matter after the five doctors have examined the patient and given their opinions. "I would annihilate that argument so often used to induce the ignorant and the innocent to become willing to go to that den of death!"
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Total Pages : 778 pages
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Author : Joseph Sabin
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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