HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: William Tuke, Mass Incarceration, Thomas Szasz

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Madness in the age of reason (early 17th and 18th centuries) Rift emerging between regularity/order and disorder: anything deriving from this new order and predictability, deviation provoked anxiety, rift widened between those considered sane and those considered mad. If not predictable, rational, orderly, you were considered mad. Madness: dual meaning: the upper (cid:272)lasses (cid:272)ould (cid:271)e (cid:373)ad, (cid:271)ut (cid:862)fashio(cid:374)a(cid:271)le(cid:863, entirely normal for young women or poets and artists to have fits of insanity, but not acceptable for the working class. Theme: segregation, isolation: efforts increased as the rift was widening, this was the answer. Most people kept at home, but locked in attic, cellar, stable. Earliest lunatic asylums established in religious contexts: ex. Priory of st. mary bethlem, 1247; eventually known as bethlem. 18th and 19th century, culture of institutions, created at a rapid rate: On the surface, represented more compassionate treatments: reason, compassion, and kindness were basis of methods of treatment.

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