HIST 690 - Madness & Mental Institutions in America - History Resources (UNH Durham)

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Encyclopedia of Asylum Therapeutics, 1750-1950s by Mary De Young
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0786468971
Publication Date: 2015-02-24
Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.
The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders by Richard Noll; Susan Naylor (Foreword by)
Call Number: Dimond - Level 2 ; RC514 .N63 2007
ISBN: 9780816064052
Publication Date: 2006-10-01
Written for general readers and professionals alike, The Encyclopedia of Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders, Third Edition is the most comprehensive single source on this topic. Coverage includes the history, treatment, diagnosis, and medical research and theories regarding this class of mental illness.

Changing Faces of Madness: Early American Attitudes and Treatment of the Insane by Mary Ann Jimenez
Call Number: Dimond - Level 2 ; RC455.2.P85 J56 1987
ISBN: 0874513758
Publication Date: 1987-02-01
By tracing changing responses to insanity in Massachusetts, the author provides new insights into the evolution of early American culture.
Madness in the city of magnificent intentions : a history of race and mental illness in the nation's capital by Martin Anthony Summers
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780190852665
Publication Date: 2019
Summers documents the history of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, a federal mental institution in Washington, DC, in relation to that city's African American community. He sheds light on the intersections of the historical process of racialization, medical and cultural understandings of insanity, the exercise of institutional power, and individual and collective agency.
Mad Yankees by Lawrence B. Goodheart
Call Number: Dimond - Level 2 ; RC439 .G66 2003
ISBN: 1558494057
Publication Date: 2003-10-07
Opened in 1824, the Hartford Retreat for the Insane was the first hospital of any kind in Connecticut and the only private mental asylum in the nation founded by a state medical society.
Medical encounters : knowledge and identity in early American literatures by Kelly Wisecup
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1613762887
Publication Date: 2013
Wisecup demonstrates that Europeans, Natives, and Africans held certain medical ideas in common, including a conception of disease as both a spiritual and a physical entity, and a belief in the power of special rituals or prayers to restore health. As a consequence, medical knowledge and practices operated as a shared form of communication on which everyone drew in order to adapt to a world of devastating new maladies and unfamiliar cures.
Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia Across Cultures by T. M. Luhrmann (Editor); Jocelyn Marrow (Editor)
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 9780520964945
Publication Date: 2016-09-27
This book gives an intimate, personal account of those living with serious psychotic disorder in the United States, India, Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience by Arthur Kleinman
Call Number: Dimond - Level 2 ; RC455.4.E8 K57 1988
ISBN: 0029174414
Publication Date: 1988-06-27
"That's Not What We Meant to Do": Reform and Its Unintended Consequences in the Twentieth Century by Steven M. Gillon
Call Number: Dimond - Level 4 ; HV57 .G56 2000
ISBN: 0393048845
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
With a shrewd eye for historical absurdity, Steven M. Gillon takes us on a tour of this century's reforms and legal innovation -- federal welfare policy, community mental health, immigration, and campaign finance reform, to name an additional few--and describes the unintended consequences of their enactment.
Theaters of Madness: Insane Asylums and Nineteenth-Century American Culture by Benjamin Reiss
Call Number: Dimond - Level 2 ; RC443 .R43 2008
ISBN: 9780226709635
Publication Date: 2008-08-30
Theaters of Madness explores both the culture these rich offerings fomented and the asylum's place in the fabric of nineteenth-century life, reanimating a time when the treatment of the insane was a central topic in debates over democracy, freedom, and modernity.

Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the ecclesiastical history of New-England from its first planting in the year 1620. unto the year of our Lord, 1698. In seven books. by Cotton Mather
provided by Gale Eighteenth Century Primary Documents by license through the UNH Library
The Case of Cotton Mather's wife Lydia in The Diary of Cotton Mather, Vol II, 583-91.
provided by the Internet Archive at Archive.org
The Angel of Bethesda by Cotton Mather
provided by the Internet Archive at Archive.org
Sibley's Harvard Graduates, Vol. VII
provided by Hathi Trust
"The Case of Mania Successfully Treated by Mercury," The Medical Repository Vol. 1:2 (1797), pg. 181-84. by E. H. Smith
provided by the Internet Archive at Archive.org
"Remarkable Case of Madness: Communicated by Dr. John Vaughan of Wilmington to Dr. Mitchell, March 17, 1802," The Medical Repository Vol. 5:4 (1802), pg. 408-12.
provided by the Internet Archive at Archive.org
Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind by Benjamin Rush
Publication Date: 1812
provided by Google Books
"Review of Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the Mind" The Medical Repository Vol. 1:2 (1813), pg. 145-56.
The American Journal of Insanity
All volumes; provided by Hathi Trust
Life Magazine, May 6, 1946
provided by Google Books

New Hampshire Hospital History
provided by New Hampshire Health and Human Services
Reports of the board of visitors, trustees, the treasurer, and superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane.
Call Number: Special Collections & Archives, Dimond level 1 ; RC445.N4 R47
Publication Date: 1840-1920
Concord, NH : Governor And Council

The Mentally Ill in America - a History of Their Care and Treatment from Colonial Times by Albert Deutsch
Call Number: Online.
ISBN: 1406736368
Publication Date: 2nd ed., 1949
This fascinating book traces the evolution of a cultural pattern as represented by the way in which people through the years have thought and felt about the so-called insane.
The Shame of the States by Albert Deutsch
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 0405052022
Publication Date: 1948
Madness: A History by Petteri Pietikäinen
Call Number: Online
ISBN: 1317484452
Publication Date: 2015-05-15
The book opens by considering perceptions and experiences of madness starting in Biblical times, Ancient history and Hippocratic medicine to the Age of Enlightenment, before moving on to developments from the late 18th century to the late 20th century and the Cold War era. Petteri Pietikäinen looks at issues such as 18th century asylums, the rise of psychiatry, the history of diagnoses, the experiences of mental health patients, the emergence of neuroses, the impact of eugenics, the development of different treatments, and the late 20th century emergence of anti-psychiatry and the modern malaise of the worried well.
Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century by Serena Trowbridge
Call Number: Dimond Level 2 ; RC439 .I57 2015
ISBN: 9781848934528
Publication Date: 2014-12-01
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself - its architecture, funding and purpose - and at the experience of those who were sent there.