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Author Goodheart, Lawrence B., 1944-

Title Mad Yankees : the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and nineteenth-century psychiatry / Lawrence B. Goodheart.

Publication Info. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003]
©2003

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  362.21 GOODHEART    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  362.2 GOO    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  362.21 GOO    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  362.21 G652M    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  362.2109 GOODHEART    Check Shelf
Description xviii, 218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ironies of institutionalization -- Origin of the asylum -- Eli Todd, apostle of moral asylum -- The paradox of curative treatment -- The therapeutic imperative of Amariah Brigham -- The impoverished insane -- John S. Butler and the reinvention of the retreat -- The emergence of eugenics.
Subject Retreat for the Insane at Hartford -- History.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Connecticut -- History -- 19th century.
Retreat for the Insane at Hartford.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Connecticut.
Institutionalization -- history -- Connecticut.
History, 19th Century -- Connecticut.
Psychiatry -- history -- Connecticut.
ISBN 1558494057 cloth alkaline paper
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