HLTHAGE 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: On Being, Ethnography, Moral Treatment
21 Dec 2016
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19th century growth of institutions and institution population. Belief in isolation of hospitals, rigid scheduling (to restore reason), curative power of institutions themselves. Other goals (no restraints, programming) failed due to lack of funding, personnel. By 1960, half a million us citizens in long-term psychiatric care. In the 19th c different govts and states took on the responsibility of building institutions - asylums. The people who built these hospitals had specific ideas in mind the life of the family was a major reason why people suffered from mi in the first place. Hospitals were built away from cities to get away from bustle. Within hospitals, clear regimented days needed to be constructed for patients because the mi lacked reason, so the day could be structured to force reason on people. They were following moral treatment - a philosophy that would guide how mi people were handled.
