DST 500 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Moral Treatment, Centre For Addiction And Mental Health, Elizabeth Packard

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 500
• Professor: Jenna Reid

Document Summary

Mad matters ch 2: women in 19th c asylums. 19th c huge in western history of psych institutions. Had belief that mad people should be removed and confined in controlled environments. Women v likely to be committed because hysteria and insanity were especially. 3 women"s experiences, consider male-dominated psychiatry and politics of madness in a context of industrialization. Foucault: asylums enabled the growth of a microcosm where all the structures of bourgeois society and values had their own symbol: the relationship between family and children structured around theme of paternal authority. The rel bet fault and punishment around the theme of immediate justice. Links bet madness and disorder around the theme of social and moral order. Utica crib: crazy crib--type of physical restraint. Women 5x more likely to be secluded in locked cells. Female deviation from norm = repressed and punished. Questioned her husband"s opinions on slavery, family finances, etc.