As Remembrance Sunday approaches, I wanted to reflect on the work of the Red Cross in the First World War, on the auxiliary hospitals for war wounded that were set up in private houses, and on the founding of the cottage hospital at Insch, in Aberdeenshire, as one of the many hospitals...
1942. However, earlier than this there is a reference of some asylums in the period of Mohammad Khilji (1436–1469) during the fifteenth century. There is evidence of the presence of a mental hospital at Dhar near Mandu, Madhya Pradesh whose physician was Maulana Fazulur Hakim (Sugandhi, ...
His story begins by chronicling changes in the asylums of the 18th century which, during the early years of the century, were little more than jails for the insane. With the unchaining of Full Text Download PDF Full Text Cite This Permissions Access through your institution JAMA+ AI Tre...
Kathleen Jones, Asylums and After: A Revised History of the Mental Health Services: From the Early Eighteenth Century to the 1990s, The Athlone Press, London, 1993, 306 pp., hard 42.00, paper 14.95.Christine Dean and Hugh Freeman (eds.), Community Mental Health Care: International ...
Tour the grounds of the former Dorothea Dix Insane Asylum, and explore the dark and complex history of one of America's earliest asylums ByNorth Carolina Public Historians Organization 27followers Follow Select date and time Friday, December 13 · 5:30 - 7pm EST ...
It also victimized the corn-fed residents of state-run institutions: orphanages, prisons, asylums. In 1908, when cases of pellagra at southern state hospitals were increasing at an alarming rate, James Woods Babcock, the Harvard-educated superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital and a...
Homes for the Mad: Life Inside Two Nineteenth-Century Asylums. New Bruns- wick, USA: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1987. Dwyer, Ellen. "Stories of Epilepsy 1880-1930." In Charles E. Rosenberg and Janet Golden (Eds.), Framing Disease: Studies in Cultural History, 248-72. New Brunswick, USA: ...
Asylums While terrifying mental health remedies can be traced back to prehistoric times, it’s the dawn of the asylum era in the mid-1700s that marks a period of some of the most inhumane mental health treatments. This is when asylums themselves became notorious warehouses for the mentally il...
religion became central to cure, and, alongside the mediaeval asylums such as the Bethlehem (a famous or infamous asylum in London that is at the origin of the expression, ‘like a bad day at Bedlam’), some monasteries transformed themselves into centres for the treatment of mental disorder....
Each chapter covers one genre of text about life inside asylums in the 19th and 20th century. So the first chapter is about fiction, the second about memoir-exposes which is a sort of hybrid genre that I’ve identified to talk about the journalistic and memoir pieces coming out around that...