Carla Yanni . The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. (Architecture, Landscape, and American Culture.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2007. Pp. xi, 191. Cloth $82.50, paper $27.50doi:10.1086/ahr.113.2.502...
Insane Asylums Search In the 1800’s and earlier you could be institutionalized for a wide variety of things: Wives and daughters who did not obey their husbands or fathers could be put away, alcoholics, depressed people, “angry people”, women in menopause, and people going against the norm...
tenment. Dorothea Dix was shocked to find the mentally iii in jails and almshouses and crusaded for the establishment of asylums in which people could receive humane care in hospital-like environments and treatment, which might help restore them to sanity. By the mid-1800s, 20 states had es...
Moreover, the state of mental asylums was increasingly coming into question. In 1948, Albert Deustsch (1905–1961), a historian and journalist who wrote one of the first histories of American psychiatry (Deutsch, 1937), wrote The Shame of the States after touring 40 asylums in Pennsylvania, ...
The mental health movement in the United States began with a period of considerable enlightenment. Dorothea Dix was shocked to find the mentally ill in jails and almshouses and crusaded for the establishment of asylums in which people could..
Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane was, for much of the 20th century, one of the nation's more notorious mental asylums, occupying an incredible 529 acres, and its annual census hovered above 2,000 patients. But, like many American asylums, Ionia suffered a rapid fa...
(See flier at right: Rabbi Spitz in the American Hebrew, March 1, 1946: "American Jews must come to grips with our contemporary anti-Semites; we must fill our insane asylums with anti-Semitic lunatics.") Such viewpoints led to major collisions between McCarthyite radicals and supporters of...
Book ReviewsCarla Yanni.The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 256 pp.; 90 halftones, 30 line art, appendixes, bibliography, index. $27.50.doi:10.1086/597342Monique Bourque...
Maryland Hospital for the Insane:—In our notice of this excellent Institution in the Oct. number of the Journal, we intimated that the cases of Mania a potu received into this Hospital and cured, were enumerated among the recoveries from insanity. We find we were mistaken. They were not ...
(Russell Sage Foundation), and contains a directory of sanatoria, hospitals and day camps for the treatment of tuberculosis in the United States and Canada; lists of insane asylums and penal institutions making special provision for tuberculous inmates, and a list of dispensaries and clinics for ...