The peculiar institution and the making of modern psychiatry, 1840-1880 / Wendy Gonaver.

"Argues that slavery and race relations in the South shaped the theory and practice of early psychiatry. The book examines continuities in psychiatric treatment that provided for the gradual expansion of the state's power of involuntary confinement. The impact of these continuities continu...

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Main Author: Gonaver, Wendy (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2018]
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Call Number: RC438 .G66 2018
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