Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry

11/09/2019 53 min
Race, Slavery, and Psychiatry

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Episode Synopsis

Dr. Wendy Gonaver discusses her book, "The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880," the Eastern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia, and the roles that race, the institution of slavery, and slave labor played in the development of psychiatric diagnosis and care through the nineteenth century and beyond.