Historical abuses (abnormal handout 5) Crossword
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1) mental illness see as possession by evil spirits, loss of protection by gods; (trepanation)2) in Baghdad in AD 792; conditions were more advanced in islamic world3) 1754-1813; signer of declaration of independence; "father of american psychiatry"; bloodletting, purgatives, and the "tranquilizing chair";5) between 1939-1941, 75k to 250k people "euthanized" by Nazis for conditions such as schizo, down's syndrome, epilepsy, physical malformations, mental retardation, etc. -- 1938 German poster advocating euthanization (" 60k Reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. fellow german, that is your money too."6) a psychological illness characterized by an extreme impulse to dance, prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, and widely believed at the time to have been caused by the bite of a tarantula.8) paracelsus; st. vincent de paul10) mass madness, monasteries served as refuges; doubtful thatt mentally ill were commonly persecuted as witches; conditions were more advanced in islamic world: 1st mental hospital founded in Baghdad in AD 792;11) the quaker retreat at York (still in operation)12) "mental disease is no different to bodily disease and christianity demands of the humane and powerful to protect, and the skillful to relieve the one as well as the other"13) first antipsychotic drugs19) AD 130-200; identified PHYSICAL and PSYCHOLOGICAL causes of mental illness: head injuries, alcohol abuse, adolescence, menstrual changes; shock, fear, economic, reversals, disappointment in live; (in Rome, temples dedicated to Saturn were "first-rate sanatoria")21) campaigned for humanitarian reforms and the building of mental hospitals23) philippe pinel (1745-1826); william tuke (1732-1822); dorothea dix (1802-1887)25) prison-like; filthy; inmates shackled and treated like animals, sent into the streets to beg for food, or exhibited for a "penny-a-peek."; worst asylum: St. Mary's of Bethlehem, London (Bedlam), 154726) delusions of being a wolf |
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4) 1576 - 1660; "mental disease is no different to bodily disease and chrstianity demands of the humane and powerful to protect, and the skillful to relieve the one as well as the other"7) 1830-1860s; humane treatment; character rehabilitation combined with manual labor and spiritual discussion; discharge rate = 71%9) 71% (1833-1853)13) " 60k Reichsmarks is what this person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community during his lifetime. fellow german, that is your money too."14) (460-377 BC); saw mental illnesses as the result of BRAIN PATHOLOGY; clinical observation; categorization: mania, melancholia, phrenitis; treatment for melancholia: regular, tranquil life, nothing in excess, moderate exercise, bleeding (if necessary); often removed patients from families (family-ectomies)15) on Buck case; "three generations of imbeciles are enough."16) 30% (1950s)17) (from the Masque of Pandora (1875) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow); "whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad"18) parasitism and its costs to society; the remedy (textbook from Tennessee)20) U.S. supreme court upheld 1924 statute authorizing the COMPULSORY STERILIZATION of the mentally retarded; "it is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind..."22) encephalitis: inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use)24) mania, melancholia, phrenitis27) a study of heritability of feeble-mindedness; genetic inheritance?; Martin has child w/ poor feeble minded barwoman; her kids are feeble minded; has another family with lawful woman - kids do not have feeble mindedness; how do you judge feeble mindedness?28) benjamin rush29) diagnosis proposed in 1851 by physician Samuel A. Cartwright, of the Louisiana Medical Association; used to explain the tendency of negro slaves to free captivity30) Buck raped by the nephew of her adoptive mother and gave birth to an illegitimate child; as an inmate at the Lynchburg State Colony for Epileptics and the Feeble-Minded, was said to represent a "genetic threat to society"; Negative Eugenics; 64,000 forced sterilizations in the U.S. (1910-1960); sterilized her31) unchained inmates and treated them with kindness32) tarantism and lycanthropy33) from Civic Biology (Hunter, 1914) (textbook in Tennessee); "If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading. humanity will not allow this, but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race. remedies of this sort have been tried successfully in Europe and are now meeting with some success in this country." |
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