When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt at twenty years old that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Ins...Lasīt vairāk
The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germanys age of extremes. The book shows that - even during the Nazi killing of the sick - relatives played an even more important role in...Lasīt vairāk
In the first work of investigative journalism in decades to give a comprehensive view into contemporary psychiatric incarceration and forced interventions, Your Consent Is Not Required exposes how rising numbers of people from many walks of life are...Lasīt vairāk
Beautifully adapted and rendered through piercing illustrations by acclaimed creators Brad Ricca and Courtney Sieh, Nellie Bly’s complete, true-to-life 19th-century investigation of Blackwell Asylum captures a gro...Lasīt vairāk
Committed to the Illinois State Hospital by her cruel husband, Elizabeth, amidst deplorable conditions, finds other women like her, conveniently labeled crazy, and, with nothing left to lose, gives voice to those who cannot stand up for themselves as...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469669472)
To many, asylums are a relic of a bygone era. State governments took steps between 1950 and 1990 to minimize the involuntary confinement of people in psychiatric hospitals, and many mental health facilities closed down. Yet, as Anne Parsons reveals,...Lasīt vairāk
Risdon N Slate, Kelly Frailing, W Wesley Johnson, Jacqueline K Buffington-Vollum
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Dec-2021, Other book format, Izdevniecība: Carolina Academic Press, ISBN-13: 9781531004422)
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For a myriad of reasons the criminal justice system has become the de facto mental health system in the United States. The third edition of The Criminalization of Mental Illness thoroughly explains these reasons, and describes in detail specialized...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520355675)
Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the feebleminded, justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Instit...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Nov-2021, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520355682)
Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the feebleminded, justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Instit...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Sep-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Mint Editions, ISBN-13: 9781513205090)
Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzers famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackw...Lasīt vairāk
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard, committed to an insane asylum by her traitorous husband, becomes a champion for the many rational women on her ward, discovering that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose. ...Lasīt vairāk
From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational j...Lasīt vairāk
In 1860, Elizabeth Packard, committed to an insane asylum by her traitorous husband, becomes a champion for the many rational women on her ward, discovering that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose. ...Lasīt vairāk
Ten Days in a Mad-House (1887) is a book by American investigative journalist Nellie Bly. For her first assignment for Joseph Pulitzers famed New York World newspaper, Bly went undercover as a patient at a notorious insane asylum on Blackw...Lasīt vairāk
Christopher Slobogin, Thomas L. Hafemeister, Douglas Mossman
Sērija : American Casebook Series
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Jun-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: West Academic Press, ISBN-13: 9781684677078)
Offers a wide-ranging, in-depth coverage of how the legal system responds to challenges posed by persons with mental disorders. The book includes treatment of the law and literature relating to regulation of the mental health professions, and the go...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jun-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Illinois Press, ISBN-13: 9780252043147)
Anna Ott, a female physician battling oppression and the law in the nineteenth-century Midwest, died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. In this title, Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional, revealing...Lasīt vairāk
