Administrations Of Lunacy
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2020
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-297-7 (ISBN)
The New Press (Verlag)
978-1-62097-297-7 (ISBN)
A scathing and original look at the racist origins of psychiatry, through the story of the largest mental institution in the world.
Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into America's troubled present.
Today, 90 percent of psychiatric beds are located in jails and prisons across the United States, institutions that confine disproportionate numbers of African Americans. After more than a decade of research, the celebrated scholar and activist Mab Segrest locates the deep historical roots of this startling fact, turning her sights on a long-forgotten cauldron of racial ideology: the state mental asylum system in which psychiatry was born and whose influences extend into America's troubled present.
Mab Segrest is professor emeritus of gender and women's studies at Connecticut College and the author of Administrations of Lunacy and Memoir of a Race Traitor (both from The New Press). A longtime activist in social justice movements and a past fellow at the National Humanities Center, she lives in Durham, North Carolina.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.11.2018 |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-62097-297-2 / 1620972972 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-62097-297-7 / 9781620972977 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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