Bedlam

Author : Christina Ramos
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469666588
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam in the New World written by Christina Ramos and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-12-20 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rebellious Indian proclaiming noble ancestry and entitlement, a military lieutenant foreshadowing the coming of revolution, a blasphemous Creole embroiderer in possession of a bundle of sketches brimming with pornography. All shared one thing in common. During the late eighteenth century, they were deemed to be mad and forcefully admitted to the Hospital de San Hipolito in Mexico City, the first hospital of the New World to specialize in the care and custody of the mentally disturbed. Christina Ramos reconstructs the history of this overlooked colonial hospital from its origins in 1567 to its transformation in the eighteenth century, when it began to admit a growing number of patients transferred from the Inquisition and secular criminal courts. Drawing on the poignant voices of patients, doctors, friars, and inquisitors, Ramos treats San Hipolito as both a microcosm and a colonial laboratory of the Hispanic Enlightenment—a site where traditional Catholicism and rationalist models of madness mingled in surprising ways. She shows how the emerging ideals of order, utility, rationalism, and the public good came to reshape the institutional and medical management of madness. While the history of psychiatry's beginnings has often been told as seated in Europe, Ramos proposes an alternative history of madness's medicalization that centers colonial Mexico and places religious figures, including inquisitors, at the pioneering forefront.

Author : Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525541314
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist and award-winning documentarian sheds light on the mental-health-care crisis in the United States. When Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg trained as a psychiatrist in the late 1980s, the state mental hospitals, which had reached peak occupancy in the 1950s, were being closed at an alarming rate, with many patients having nowhere to go. There has never been a more important time for this conversation, as one in five adults--40 million Americans--experiences mental illness each year. Today, the largest mental institution in the United States is the Los Angeles County Jail, and the last refuge for many of the 20,000 mentally ill people living on the streets of Los Angeles is L.A. County Hospital. There, Dr. Rosenberg begins his chronicle of what it means to be mentally ill in America today, integrating his own moving story of how the system failed his sister, Merle, who had schizophrenia. As he says, "I have come to see that my family's tragedy, my family's shame, is America's great secret." Dr. Rosenberg gives readers an inside look at the historical, political, and economic forces that have resulted in the greatest social crisis of the twenty-first century. The culmination of a seven-year inquiry, Bedlam is not only a rallying cry for change, but also a guidebook for how we move forward with care and compassion, with resources that have never before been compiled, including legal advice, practical solutions for parents and loved ones, help finding community support, and information on therapeutic options.

Author : Catharine Arnold
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847390005
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam written by Catharine Arnold and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Author : Geoff Nicholson
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 1468305158
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam Burning written by Geoff Nicholson and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2003-12-30 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel. It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—“a little active, symbolic literary criticism”—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a fire. It is at one such party that the brilliant but sheepish Gregory Collins meets Mike Smith, a handsome classmate. They become fast friends. And then their friendship takes a decidedly strange turn. When Gregory’s first novel, The Wax Man, is published, he convinces Mike to take his place on the book jacket. Now Mike is the one invited to be a writer-in-residence at an insane asylum run by Dr. Eric Kincaid, whose obscure therapeutic philosophy centers on the soothing powers of literature. When Mike compiles a book of the inmates’ writings, and it becomes a literary success, this comedy of errors threatens to take another, far darker turn. “Completely addictive and very, very funny. Great.” —Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler’s Anatomy “Donald Westlake meets Ken Kesey in this . . . compulsively good read.” —Library Journal

Author : Kathy Haan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam Moon written by Kathy Haan and published by . This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a fated mate, #whychoose paranormal romance, where romance comes first. Expect instalove between one member of the group, and a slow burn for the others. Our heroes are cinnamon rolls, where they're sweet and not cruel.She thought she had seen the world. She had no idea the fae have a world of their own...Thirty-four-year-old Lana Chapman-Sawyer has an MBA, zero student loan debt, a successful travel blog, and curves for days.What she doesn't have is a family...Lana's mother vanished when she was only eight, her father was never in the picture, and her adoptive parents died in a car accident when she was thirty, leaving her orphaned once again.When Lana receives a strange package with a magical key in the mail, she decides to take it to her cabin deep in the Northern woods of Minnesota, the very place where her mother abandoned her.Little does she know, the neighborhood is not exactly as she remembers it...Osgood "Oz" Finlandian is your average next-door multi-billionaire humanitarian and businessman. He just so happens to be a 5,500-year-old vampire.And not just any vampire. He's the first vampire ever created. The King of Vampires who rules over the royal court.He's also the one to tell Lana about Bedlam, the fae realm, and the locked witch powers she never knew she had.But unbinding her powers is only the beginning...Oz, who has a dark past of his own, promises to help Lana uncover the mystery behind her mother's disappearance, and the two of them take on several quests, all the while facing ancient prophecies, recurring dreams, an obsessed witch, and an evil cult hot on Lana's tail.Too bad Lana also has to navigate her way through irresistible desire in the process...This is a #whychoose, paranormal romance with witches, vampires, fae, and time travel. Other members of the harem will join in subsequent books of the series. Some elements include fated mates and touches on mental health. This is not romantic suspense, but paranormal romance, where love comes first.

Author : Derek Landy
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008303975
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 12) written by Derek Landy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 12th explosive novel in the internationally bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series, BEDLAM will blow your mind – and change everything...

Author : Bill Flanagan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780143113539
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Bedlam written by Bill Flanagan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impulsively taking a job with a family-run cable company after unceremoniously losing his position as a network programming executive, Bobby Kahn finds himself butting heads with his dysfunctional small-town employers, who have made formidable enemies throughout the years. By the author of A&R. Reprint.

Author : Ellen Guon
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN 13 : 1618241079
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam Boyz written by Ellen Guon and published by Baen Publishing Enterprises. This book was released on 1993-06-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prequel to Bedlam's Bard When one of her friends is gunned down, Kayla uses her latent healing powers to heal her friend¾and the gang member who shot him¾and soon the city's gangs are eager to use her powers for evil. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Mercedes Lackey
Publisher : Baen Books
ISBN 13 : 9781416532828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam's Bard written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2006-06-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Banyon, a Renaissance Faire musician, must help Korendil, a young elven noble, prevent an evil elven lord from conquering California.

Author : James Thomson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557250013
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bedlam City: Savage Worlds Edition written by James Thomson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-12-24 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WELCOME TO BEDLAM!Take a trip back to the Iron Age of comics and visit Bedlam City. It's the smaller, dirtier and more dangerous town next door to your superhero campaign's shining metropolis, presented here in lavish detail. Stalk its alleys, punch out its supervillains, expose its horrible secrets--and have no fear, there are always plenty more where they came from.Weighing in at a whopping 394 pages, this book is crammed with dozens of NPCs, neighborhoods, adventure seeds and locations, with enough back-stories and plot arcs to keep your PCs playing for years.Fully compatible with the Super Powers Companion Bedlam City is fast, fun and ferocious, with no new rules to learn or systems to memorize. If you own a copy of the Super Powers Companion you can pick up Bedlam City and start playing it right now.So what are you waiting for? Bedlam is calling. There's a shadowy rooftop out there just waiting for you to start lurking on it...