HIST 3640 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Moral Treatment, Am General, Pessimism
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General paralysis of the insane (gpi): therapeutic nihilism, antoine bayle (1799 1858) = performed numerous autopsies and began to make the connection that brain lesions and inflammation was connected to mental illness, tertiary syphilis. Complex illness occurring at the end of the infection. Social context of the 19th century: post industrialization created new classes: Emerged as the class of owners, also ran everything. Comfortable lives steeped in luxury fueling the demand for luxury goods. Exploited on an unprecedented scale: many social reformers emerged to try and change such conditions. Robert owen ran a cotton factory in manchester and noted that in factories, even the machines were better treated than the workers themselves. Children under 9 could not work in a factory. Provided two hours of education a day for children. Children under 13 could only work 40 hours a week.