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Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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“Patient labor was often called industrial therapy, and it was popular in virtually every American mental hospital in the first half of the twentieth century.”
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
“I hear that their sick family members have had more interactions with the criminal justice system than they have with social safety nets or hospitals, and that the more stressors, poverty, and violence they are subjected to, the less empathy they seem to receive from their neighbors.”
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
“As it turned out, the state had destroyed or lost most of the files preceding the year 1960, and others they had allowed to become contaminated with asbestos. One employee would allege that a collection of files detailing incidents of patient abuse had been shredded shortly after his retirement”
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
― Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
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