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Unmentionable Madness: Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis: Disability Histories

Autor Christin L. Hancock
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 7 ian 2025
In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that relied on the belief that infection with malaria might save Smith’s life by attacking the bacterium that causes syphilis. Christin L. Hancock looks through the lens of feminist disability to examine the popular but ethically suspect treatment and its consequences. As Hancock shows, the treatment’s purported success rate relied on the disabled minds and bodies of people incarcerated in mental hospitals. The backgrounds and identities of these patients reflected and perpetuated attitudes around poverty, gender, race, and disability while betraying authorities’ desire to protect the public from women and men perceived as abnormal, sexually tainted, and unworthy of community life.
Paying special attention to the patients’ voices and experiences, Unmentionable Madness offers a disability history that confronts the ethics of experimentation.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780252088223
ISBN-10: 0252088220
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 9 black and white photographs
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Illinois Press
Colecția University of Illinois Press
Seria Disability Histories


Recenzii

“The close-range analysis offers something new to the field by amplifying the perspective of a patient, and by extension other patients, whose experiences have been quantified but rarely confronted head on.”--Erika Dyck, coeditor of Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics

Notă biografică

Christin L. Hancock is a professor of history and gender, women, and sexuality studies at the University of Portland and associate dean for curriculum in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mabel Smith, Ancestral Disability, and Shame
  1. Mabel Smith
  2. Dr. Walter L. Bruetsch
  3. Supplying the Research: Patient Experiences at CSH
  4. Race, Gender, and Neurosyphilis
  5. Dying from Neurosyphilis and the Silencing of Disability
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index