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

Author - Peter McCandless ... [Goo?] [Posters]

This Hardcover Book item from University of North Carolina Press was reviewed on 24-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by University of North Carolina Press.

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.

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2) Hardcover Book Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by University of North Carolina Press.

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.

For more on Madness go to

http://ally.ios.com/~advpres9/madness.html¤

3) Hardcover Book Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era by University of North Carolina Press. 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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