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:
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.
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.
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 2023-10-12 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hiram Chase's "Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum" is an extraordinary firsthand account that unveils the harrowing and often grim reality of life inside a 19th-century lunatic asylum. With unflinching honesty, Chase takes readers on a poignant journey through his personal odyssey, offering a rare glimpse into the conditions, treatments, and experiences endured by individuals labeled as mentally ill during that era. His narrative is a testament to both the resilience of the human spirit and the complexities of mental health care during a time when understanding and compassion were scarce. Chase's courageous storytelling not only serves as a poignant reminder of the injustices of the past but also as an invaluable historical document that sheds light on the evolution of mental health care and the ongoing pursuit of empathy and humane treatment for individuals facing mental health challenges. "Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum" stands as a powerful and thought-provoking testimony that continues to resonate with contemporary discussions on mental health and the rights of those affected by it.
Download or read book Two Years and Four Months in a Lunatic Asylum written by Hiram Chase and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relating the author's experiences from August 20th 1863 to December 20th 1865. First published in 1868.
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!"
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability written by Clare Barker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Working across time periods and critical contexts, this volume provides the most comprehensive overview of literary representations of disability.
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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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.
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