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 social structures, their treatment methods, and patients’ overall experiences. This project sheds light on how the differences in many of these institutions were often strategically planned and racially motivated and how systemic racism in the field of medicine managed to seep through the 19th century into the 20th century.
Initial Bibliography
Bourque Kearin, Madeline. “‘As Syllable from Sound’: The Sonic Dimensions of Confinement at the State Hospital for the Insane at Worcester, Massachusetts.” History of Psychiatry 31, no. 1 (March 2020): 67–82. doi:10.1177/0957154X19879649.
Diana, Martha Louis. “Black Women’s Psychiatric Incarceration at Georgia Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Women’s History 34, no. 1 (Spring, 2022): 26-48. doi:https://doi-org.umw.idm.oclc.org/10.1353/jowh.2022.0008. https://umw.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.umw.idm.oclc.org/scholarly-journals/black-women-s-psychiatric-incarceration-at/docview/2811716628/se-2.
Goffman, Erving. “Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates” (1st ed.). Routledge. (2007). https://doi-org.umw.idm.oclc.org/10.4324/9781351327763
Gambino, Matthew. “Erving Goffman’s Asylums and Institutional Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States.” Harvard Review of Psychiatry 21, no. 1 (2013): 52–57. https://doi.org/10.1097/HRP.0b013e31827d7df4.
Foucault, Michel. History of Madness. London: Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. Accessed September 22, 2023. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Hughes, John S. “Labeling and Treating Black Mental Illness in Alabama, 1861-1910.” The Journal of Southern History 58, no. 3 (1992): 435–60. https://doi.org/10.2307/2210163.
Jackson, John P., and Nadine M. Weidman. “The Origins of Scientific Racism.” The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 50, no. 50 (2005): 66–79.
McKinnon, Susan. “The American Eugenics Record Office: Technologies for Terminating ‘Degenerate’ Family Lines and Purifying the Nation.” Social Analysis 65, no. 4 (2021): 23–48. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650402.
McGrath, Patrick. “Nonelective Surgery: In the Early 20th Century, Trenton State Hospital was the Scene of Unspeakable Experimental Treatments.” New York Times (1923-), May 29, 2005. https://umw.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www-proquest-com.umw.idm.oclc.org/historical-newspapers/nonelective-surgery/docview/92902465/se-2.
Norris, Caroline. “A History of Madness: Four Venerable Virginia Lunatic Asylums.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 125, no. 2 (2017): 138–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26322605.
Nuriddin, Ayah. “Psychiatric Jim Crow: Desegregation at the Crownsville State Hospital, 1948–1970.” Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences 74, no. 1 (January 2019): 85–106. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jry025.
Oswald, Frances. “Eugenical Sterilization in the United States.” American Journal of Sociology 36, no. 1 (1930): 65–73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2767224.
Payne, Christopher., and Oliver. Sacks. Asylum : Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. 1st ed. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2009.
Pumphrey, Shelby. “Curiously Cured by Sterilization.” Southern Cultures 29, no. 1 (2023): 74–105.
Reiss, Benjamin. Theaters of Madness Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226709659.
Royer, Steven Leigh. Allentown State Hospital. Mount Pleasant, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, 2020.
Stuckey, Zosha. “Race, Apology, and Public Memory at Maryland’s Hospital for the ‘Negro’ Insane.” Disability Studies Quarterly 37, no. 1 (2017). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v37i1.5392.
Summers, Martin Anthony. Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions : a History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Summers, Martin. “‘Suitable Care of the African When Afflicted With Insanity’: Race, Madness, and Social Order in Comparative Perspective.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84, no. 1 (2010): 58–91. https://doi.org/10.1353/bhm.0.0320.
