Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by McCandless, Peter
Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by McCandless, Peter

Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era

Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill...
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Author: Peter McCandless
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by McCandless, Peter

Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era

$252.40
Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by McCandless, Peter

Moonlight, Magnolias and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era

$252.40
Author: Peter McCandless
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless shows how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. He also sheds new light on the ways sectionalism and race affected the plight of the insane in a state whose fortunes worsened markedly after the Civil War. Antebellum asylum reformers in the state were inspired by many of the same ideals as their northern counterparts, such as therapeutic optimism and moral treatment. But McCandless shows that treatment ideologies in South Carolina, which had a majority black population, were complicated by the issue of race, and that blacks received markedly inferior care. By re-creating the different experiences of the insane--black and white, inside the asylum and within the community--McCandless highlights the importance of regional variation in the treatment of mental illness.

Author: Peter McCandless
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 03/04/1996
Pages: 424
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.38h x 5.98w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780807845585

About the Author
McCandless, Peter: - Peter McCandless is professor of history at the College of Charleston.
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