Through a glass darkly: patients of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, USA (1854-80).
Hist Psychiatry
; 30(2): 150-171, 2019 Jun.
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ABSTRACT
The State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville, Morgan County, Illinois, was the first public hospital of its kind to be established in the state and among the earliest to be built on the 'Kirkbride Plan'. It opened for patients in 1851. We describe the background to the establishment of the hospital and, so far as is possible from publicly available sources, its catchment area, the nature of the patients held there up to 1880, its mechanisms of discharge, and supposed causes of death. We end with a plea that after over 150 years, the release of hospital casebooks and similar records in digital form would be of considerable benefit to historians of psychology, scientific biographers, genealogists and demographers.
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Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Internamiento Obligatorio del Enfermo Mental
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Hospitales Psiquiátricos
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Hospitales Provinciales
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Trastornos Mentales
Tipo de estudio:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Límite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Hist Psychiatry
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Reino Unido