Bedlam Book Club

Ah, Bedlam: Part 2


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After a long delay due to technical issues, we are back! This episode continues where Part 1 left off. Exploring the emergence of asylums in Europe and the US leading to the infamous Golden Age of Asylums as well as their downfall (1800-1960). We'll also talk about the "treatments" use by practitioners during this time.

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Bibliography: 

Atkins, Harry. “Bedlam: The Story of Britain’s Most Infamous Asylum.” History Hit. Accessed April 19, 2023. https://www.historyhit.com/bedlam-the-story-of-britains-most-infamous-asylum/.

“Deinstitutionalization - Special Reports | The New Asylums | FRONTLINE | PBS.” Accessed July 20, 2023. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/asylums/special/excerpt.html.

Parsons, Anne E. From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945. Justice, Power, and Politics. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.

Pietikäinen, Petteri. Madness: A History. London: Routledge, 2015.

Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Nachdr. Oxford: Univ. Press, 2010.

“Prison and Asylum Reform [Ushistory.Org].” Accessed June 18, 2023. https://www.ushistory.org/us/26d.asp.

Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015.

Whitaker, Robert. Mad In America. Audible Studios on Briliance Audible, 2014.

Yohanna, Daniel. “Deinstitutionalization of People with Mental Illness: Causes and Consequences.” AMA Journal of Ethics 15, no. 10 (October 1, 2013): 886–91. https://doi.org/10.1001/virtualmentor.2013.15.10.mhst1-1310.

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