Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices - Alma Wynelle Deese - Livros - Stratton Press - 9781947355354 - 19 de dezembro de 2017
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Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices

Alma Wynelle Deese

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Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices

Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's First Asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky.

Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s-including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility.

Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.


430 pages, Illustrations

Mídia Livros     Paperback Book   (Livro de capa flexível e brochura)
Lançado 19 de dezembro de 2017
ISBN13 9781947355354
Editoras Stratton Press
Páginas 430
Dimensões 229 × 151 × 24 mm   ·   614 g
Idioma English