Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness

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

Author: Peter McCandless | Language: English | ISBN: 0807845582 | Format: PDF, EPUB

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

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• Paperback: 424 pages
• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; 2 edition (March 4, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0807845582
• ISBN-13: 978-0807845585
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,322,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I highly recommend Madness for both the layperson and the
scholar. Dr. McCandless has put together a history of
insanity in South Carolina that reads more like a
fascinating story than a "history book." His research has
uncovered a wealth of incredible tales: we not only read
about deplorable conditions, and sorry patients, but we
feel the frustration of the doctors trying to "treat" the
insane with little money and almost no guidance. Place the
big-city homeless of today back in time to the South
Carolina of the years before the Civil War. Picture the
bag lady roaming the woods. Picture the doctor trying to
cure her with bleeding and chains. Dr. McCandless paints a
picture of horror but with a brush of compassion. He lets
his reader feel for both the doctor as well as the patient.
He opens doors the reader never even knew existed.
A wonderful piece of research.

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I highly recommend Madness for both the layperson and the
scholar. Dr. McCandless has put together a history of
insanity in South Carolina that reads more like a
fascinating story than a "history book." His research has
uncovered a wealth of incredible tales: we not only read
about deplorable conditions, and sorry patients, but we
feel the frustration of the doctors trying to "treat" the
insane with little money and almost no guidance. Place the
big-city homeless of today back in time to the South
Carolina of the years before the Civil War. Picture the
bag lady roaming the woods. Picture the doctor trying to
cure her with bleeding and chains. Dr. McCandless paints a
picture of horror but with a brush of compassion. He lets
his reader feel for both the doctor as well as the patient.
He opens doors the reader never even knew existed. A
wonderful read.

For more on Madness go to

[...]

By A Customer

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