Marinski, Deborah R. (Author)
University of Toledo
Britton, Diane
Edition Details: Advisor: Britton, Diane
Physical Details: 279 pp.
Language: English
My dissertation takes a social and medical approach in the examination of the institutionalization of the mentally ill in Ohio during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era because it was during this period that Ohio became an important hub of insanity with social and medical issues intertwined with the subject. The historiography of the Gilded Age considers these years a dark period in the history of mental illness with negative opinions of institutions that merely became places of custody and doctors who became custodial agents instead of true healers. Also during this period, those suffering from insanity were seen in a negative light and considered threats to an advancing society; thus they were forced out of mainstream America and into institutions. Sources consulted reveal that underneath the deteriorating conditions for the insane there was an attempt by the doctors to provide continued care and treatment based on humanitarianism and the early nineteenth century doctrine of moral treatment with the hopes of curing the insane and returning them to active roles in society. In a re-evaluation of the historiography, I will show that there were definite changes, both positive and negative, in the theories, treatment, care, institutionalization, and curability of the mentally insane during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The economic and social shifts of the period led to modernization of institutions and insanity ideology; however, this was based on traditional ideals that were revised to fit the needs of a changing social and medical community. I agree that there was an alteration but a continuation in mental studies, treatment, and social impact and am questioning these changes by studying Ohio's institutions, doctors, and insanity ideology.
...MoreDescription Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/05 (2006): 1886. UMI pub. no. 3218760.
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