To supplement the readings for this week, I sought after a more basic overview of the treatment of women in mental institutions to serve as a brief summary of the material. This article, while a bit…. crass goes into some pretty interesting facts about how and why women were institutionalized. Also within the article is …
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Week Six Resource Blog Post
This news article from a week ago covers a story that, while I did not realize it at the time that I bookmarked it as a potential source for a post, mirrors many of the stories in Women of the Asylum quite heavily. A woman in Pennsylvania was committed to a psychiatric facility by her …
4 October 2023
I chose this meme because I saw it one day when I was scrolling on Instagram and immediately thought of this class. I thought it was funny that I saw something related to a mental health institute on one of my social media feeds.
History of Benzodiazepines Article
This is an interesting article from Benzodiazepine Information Coalition about the history of Benzodiazepines. https://www.benzoinfo.com/a-brief-history-of-benzodiazepines/
HMH Blog 2023-10-03 22:45:44
Initial Proposal and Bibliography Joey Welch Hist 471 History of Mental Health in the US Dr. McClurken Initial Proposal: This research project focuses on several segregated and non-segregated asylums from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The central goals of the project are to examine the discrepancies in the institutions and asylum’s physical and […]
Week 6 post
https://asylumprojects.org/images/9/9e/petersburg21.png This image is from the Central State Hospital in Petersburg, Virginia. (More commonly known as the Central Lunatic Asylum) This image shows several African American “insane patients” building a road. This picture struck me initially because I thought the patients were doing field/agricultural work, which was one of the main methods supervisors and attendants […]
