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- catalog abstract ""Throughout the western world, the emergence of insane asylums during the nineteenth century marked a significant change in the public perception as well as the medical treatment of mental illness. Mad Yankees tells the story of one of the earliest such institutions in the United States, the Hartford Retreat for the Insane. Opened in 1824, it was the first hospital of any kind in Connecticut and the only private mental asylum in the nation founded by a state medical society. Although conceived as an elite institution for well-to-do patrons, for many years the Hartford Retreat cared for the indigent insane and paying clients alike." "A number of remarkable physicians associated with the retreat shaped early psychiatry in Connecticut and placed the state in the vanguard of treatment for the mentally ill. Dr. Eli Todd's ethic of a "law of kindness" toward the afflicted and claims of extraordinary cure rates gained the hospital an international reputation. A coterie of doctors associated with Todd - including Mason Cogswell, Samuel B. Woodward, Amariah Brigham, and John Butler - became prominent advocates of "moral" treatment that led to tending for the insane with respect and dignity."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b13002121.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""A number of remarkable physicians associated with the retreat shaped early psychiatry in Connecticut and placed the state in the vanguard of treatment for the mentally ill. Dr. Eli Todd's ethic of a "law of kindness" toward the afflicted and claims of extraordinary cure rates gained the hospital an international reputation.".
- catalog description ""Throughout the western world, the emergence of insane asylums during the nineteenth century marked a significant change in the public perception as well as the medical treatment of mental illness. Mad Yankees tells the story of one of the earliest such institutions in the United States, the Hartford Retreat for the Insane.".
- catalog description "A coterie of doctors associated with Todd - including Mason Cogswell, Samuel B. Woodward, Amariah Brigham, and John Butler - became prominent advocates of "moral" treatment that led to tending for the insane with respect and dignity."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-206) and index.".
- catalog description "Ironies of institutionalization -- Origin of the asylum -- Eli Todd, apostle of moral medicine -- 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.".
- catalog description "Opened in 1824, it was the first hospital of any kind in Connecticut and the only private mental asylum in the nation founded by a state medical society. Although conceived as an elite institution for well-to-do patrons, for many years the Hartford Retreat cared for the indigent insane and paying clients alike."".
- catalog extent "xviii, 218 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1558494057 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press,".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut".
- catalog spatial "Connecticut.".
- catalog subject "2003 O-827".
- catalog subject "362.2/1/097463 21".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century Connecticut.".
- catalog subject "Hospitals, Psychiatric Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "Institute of Living History.".
- catalog subject "Institutionalization Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatric hospitals Connecticut History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Psychiatry Connecticut History.".
- catalog subject "RC439 .G66 2003".
- catalog subject "Retreat for the Insane at Hartford History.".
- catalog subject "Retreat for the Insane at Hartford.".
- catalog subject "WM 28 R438g 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ironies of institutionalization -- Origin of the asylum -- Eli Todd, apostle of moral medicine -- 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.".
- catalog title "Mad Yankees : the Hartford Retreat for the Insane and nineteenth-century psychiatry / Lawrence B. Goodheart.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".