Michael Rembis

Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing Mad Lives in the Age of the Asylum describes a history of madness and the asylum by focusing on the inmates who published pamphlets, memorials, memoirs, and newspaper and magazine articles about their experiences. Michael Rembis draws from these sources, as well as their letters, public speeches, and testimonies before state legislatures and the US Congress to demonstrate how the stories they told 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."

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197604847
• Artikelnr.: 72303918

Autorenporträt

Michael Rembis is the Director of the Center for Disability Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He has served on the American Historical Association's Committee on Disability, the Organization of American Historians Committee on Disability and Disability History, and the board of directors of the Society for Disability Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hearing Voices
Chapter 1: Claiming Madness
Chapter 2: Committing Violence
Chapter 3: Writing and Work
Chapter 4: Exposing Abuses
Chapter 5: Reforming the System
Chapter 6: Reckoning with Physicians
Chapter 7: Surviving Treatments
Chapter 8: Forging Friendships
Chapter 9: Helping Each Other
Epilogue: Telling Stories
Notes
Bibliography
Index