Medical Mysteries

Mental Health Pt. 2: 1700s to 1900s

05.19.2020 - By Spotify StudiosPlay

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When a young Quaker woman died in an asylum in 1790, William Tuke resolved to found a new facility focused on treatment—not incarceration. But mental health conditions were poorly understood, and many of the early expiramental treatments could be better described as torture.

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