In the Age of Revolutions, what's changing in The West’s view of madness? 

Edit: Pinel did not literally throw off the chains at his asylum, this was propaganda cooked up several decades after the revolution. Reality was much more boring.

Book Recommendation:

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Bibliography: 

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

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

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.

Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present , New York: Broadway Books 2008

Camp, Stephanie M. H. Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Briggs, Laura. “The Race of Hysteria: “Overcivilization” and the “Savage” Woman in Late Nineteenth-Century Obstetrics and Gynecology” American Quarterly 52, no. 2 (2000): 246–73. 

Fett, Sharla M. Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations. 1st ed. Gender and American Culture. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2002.

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