Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices Contributor(s): Deese, Alma Wynelle (Author) |
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ISBN: 194735535X ISBN-13: 9781947355354 Publisher: Stratton Press OUR PRICE: $15.19 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2017 |
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BISAC Categories: - Medical | History - Medical | Psychiatry - General - History | Social History |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.26 lbs) 430 pages |
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Publisher Description: Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's First Asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky. Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s-including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility. Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.
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