Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: History and Amputation
Research Interests:
... I would also like to thank Reed and Angie Bohne, Reggie Clark, Tom and Alison Duncan, Sue Lang, Don and Lane Neisen, Miriam Reiser, Al and Betsy Sharrett, and Bettye and Joe Harris for opening their homes and their refrigerators and... more
... I would also like to thank Reed and Angie Bohne, Reggie Clark, Tom and Alison Duncan, Sue Lang, Don and Lane Neisen, Miriam Reiser, Al and Betsy Sharrett, and Bettye and Joe Harris for opening their homes and their refrigerators and providing a touch of home while I was ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... 1. Hastings Hart, with the assistance of Clarence Stonaker, "A Social Welfare Plan for the State of Florida-Prepared at the Request of His Excellency ... Of the seven new structures, however, only an infirmary and an infir-mary... more
... 1. Hastings Hart, with the assistance of Clarence Stonaker, "A Social Welfare Plan for the State of Florida-Prepared at the Request of His Excellency ... Of the seven new structures, however, only an infirmary and an infir-mary annex were devoted specifically to patient needs. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The institution or asylum in North America was established as a mechanism for confining, controlling, and containing groups of individuals classified and labeled as mentally ill or intellectually disabled and defined as deviant,... more
The institution or asylum in North America was established as a mechanism for confining, controlling, and containing groups of individuals classified and labeled as mentally ill or intellectually disabled and defined as deviant, defective, or delinquent. These congregate facilities, established both for the protection of the individuals housed there and for the simultaneous protection of society from those same people, developed into massive structures designed to accommodate thousands of residents/patients/inmates. The rationale behind the rapid rise of the institution throughout the nineteenth and into the mid-twentieth centuries paralleled the growth of modern medicine and psychiatry. By the 1950s, institutions housed hundreds of thousands of individuals. Yet by the start of the twenty-first century, the institutional model had been intellectually discredited, and these facilities had been all but abandoned. This rather astounding demise mirrored broader social, scientific, and m...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
The article examines the history of Southern institutions and how these facilities are presently facing up to that past. Established both to care for and to control a population of individuals labeled as feeble-minded and deviant, these... more
The article examines the history of Southern institutions and how these facilities are presently facing up to that past. Established both to care for and to control a population of individuals labeled as feeble-minded and deviant, these facilities provided little support and help for patients and quickly devolved into over-crowded, under-funded operations. With the de-institutionalization revolution of the late twentieth century, they ceased to be the center of their state's program to handle this population. Currently through websites, museums, archives, and historic building designations, they are beginning to examine their past treatment in a more public fashion.
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Economics, Immigration, Icon, Labour, Labor, and 5 moreDemographic economics, Citation, Historical Studies, Download, and ICON
In 1927, the biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of the Commonwealth of Kentucky warned that “the feeble-minded of the colored race present a greater menace than do the white.…We do desire to point out the... more
In 1927, the biennial report of the State Board of Charities and Corrections of the Commonwealth of Kentucky warned that “the feeble-minded of the colored race present a greater menace than do the white.…We do desire to point out the utter lack of any provision for colored feeble-minded.” In spite of this admonition, southern states took little notice of their black feebleminded population. Nineteen years after the Kentucky report, the South Carolina Director of Public Welfare admitted that “the care of mentally deficient and mentally ill persons in the same institution is distinctly undesirable, but…the Hospital's efforts to secure provision of a separate training school for mentally deficient negroes have to date been unsuccessful.”
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... I have been grateful for the support I have received from other scholars working on the history of polio, disability history, and the history of medicine. Naomi Rogers, Amy Fairchild, Walton O.Schalick III, and Christopher Rutty have... more
... I have been grateful for the support I have received from other scholars working on the history of polio, disability history, and the history of medicine. Naomi Rogers, Amy Fairchild, Walton O.Schalick III, and Christopher Rutty have all offered good advice and support. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... and 8, on emotional and behav-ioral impairment, tell quite different stories, each influenced by ... patient, supportive, and extraordinarily knowledgeable help of our editor at Teachers College Press ... To explain how people... more
... and 8, on emotional and behav-ioral impairment, tell quite different stories, each influenced by ... patient, supportive, and extraordinarily knowledgeable help of our editor at Teachers College Press ... To explain how people inter-preted information, then translated it into speech and ...
Research Interests:
Arguments over the desirability of grand public works projects can reveal much about a society’s competing values, aspirations, and priorities. In their meticulous history of a repeatedly proposed—but never completed—navigational shortcut... more
Arguments over the desirability of grand public works projects can reveal much about a society’s competing values, aspirations, and priorities. In their meticulous history of a repeatedly proposed—but never completed—navigational shortcut between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, Steven Noll and David Tegeder explore the political tensions that guided Florida’s development from the time of European settlement to the present day. The Spanish first envisioned a channel dissecting the Florida peninsula in the sixteenth century and, two centuries later, the British actually recommended construction. By the early nineteenth century, boosters began petitioning the federal government to build a ship canal across northern Florida, but efforts to secure funding remained unfulfilled until the 1930s, when the waterway entered the New Deal portfolio. Although the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers acquired and cleared land and commenced construction, the dubious economic justification, tepid political support, and strong opposition caused the Roosevelt administration to abandon the project. During World War II, the canal’s proponents renewed their campaign, adding national defense as a justification (noting that cargo ships rounding Florida were particularly vulnerable to German submarine attacks), to no avail. Waterway advocates continued their lobbying throughout the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations, ultimately securing, with President Johnson’s backing and congressional approval, appropriated construction funds in 1964. The redesigned project called for a far shallower watercourse—a barge canal as opposed to a sea-level ship canal capable of accommodating oceangoing vessels—running about 182 miles, through five locks, with a twelve-foot navigation channel fed with water from three newly constructed reservoirs. Even with this reduction in size, the proposed project was massive, eclipsing the Panama Canal in the amount of earth to be excavated. The reconfigured waterway may have gained
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests: Sociology, Psychology, Politics, Nursing history, Eugenics, and 3 moreCitation, Historical Studies, and Idiot
... Conversely, Tim Stainton, in his work on Canada, sees the role of government, particularly in the shared governance between the national and provincial authorities, as the major factor in movement out of the institution and into the... more
... Conversely, Tim Stainton, in his work on Canada, sees the role of government, particularly in the shared governance between the national and provincial authorities, as the major factor in movement out of the institution and into the community. ...
Research Interests:
Create a Reading List and include this title. Select Add to Reading List on the right. ... If you are requesting permission to photocopy material for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive,... more
Create a Reading List and include this title. Select Add to Reading List on the right. ... If you are requesting permission to photocopy material for classroom use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, Fax 978-646-8600.
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
... at the University of Georgia, provides a work that clarifies the history of the debate about human ... whole nation, the North and West, and the upper-South states of Virginia and North Carolina, but Larson ... Eugenics also... more
... at the University of Georgia, provides a work that clarifies the history of the debate about human ... whole nation, the North and West, and the upper-South states of Virginia and North Carolina, but Larson ... Eugenics also conflicted with southern reli-gion and strong family traditions. ...
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Research Interests:
Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even... more
Come with us to read a new book that is coming recently. Yeah, this is a new coming book that many people really want to read will you be one of them? Of course, you should be. It will not make you feel so hard to enjoy your life. Even some people think that reading is a hard to do, you must be sure that you can do it. Hard will be felt when you have no ideas about what kind of book to read. Or sometimes, your reading material is not interesting enough.