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Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices
Alma Wynelle Deese
Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices
Alma Wynelle Deese
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 |
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