Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880, Hardcove...

by Wendy Gonaver

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Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1, Hardcover by Gonaver, Wendy, ISBN 1469648431, ISBN-13 9781469648439, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Argues that slavery and race relations in the South shaped the theory and practice of early psychiatry. Th examines continuities in psychiatric treatment that provided for the gradual expansion of the state's power of involuntary confinement. The impact of these continuities continues to be seen in contemporary health practices for women, African Americans, the indigent, and prisoners"--

• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Year: 2019
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781469648439
• Condition: Fine

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