Unmentionable Madness - Christin L. Hancock

Unmentionable Madness

Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
Buch | Softcover
192 Seiten
2025
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08822-3 (ISBN)
26,15 inkl. MwSt
In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that relied on the belief that infection with malaria might save Smith’s life by attacking the bacterium that causes syphilis. Christin L. Hancock looks through the lens of feminist disability to examine the popular but ethically suspect treatment and its consequences. As Hancock shows, the treatment’s purported success rate relied on the disabled minds and bodies of people incarcerated in mental hospitals. The backgrounds and identities of these patients reflected and perpetuated attitudes around poverty, gender, race, and disability while betraying authorities’ desire to protect the public from women and men perceived as abnormal, sexually tainted, and unworthy of community life.

Paying special attention to the patients’ voices and experiences, Unmentionable Madness offers a disability history that confronts the ethics of experimentation.

Christin L. Hancock is a professor of history and gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Portland and associate dean for curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Mabel Smith, Ancestral Disability, and Shame



Mabel Smith
Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch
Supplying the Research: Patient Experiences at CSH
Race, Gender, and Neurosyphilis
Dying from Neurosyphilis and the Silencing of Disability

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 7.1.2025
Reihe/Serie Disability Histories
Zusatzinfo 9 black and white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 0-252-08822-0 / 0252088220
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08822-3 / 9780252088223
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