Download This Paper'Your Hospitals Are Not Our Hospitals': The Modern General Hospital as a Standard for Judging Psychiatric Care
16 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2023 Last revised: 18 Aug 2023
Date Written: August 1, 1992
Abstract
A well-known attack on asylum psychiatry by neurologist S. Weir Mitchell is reviewed to examine how the standards used to judge psychiatry reflect emerging practices in the modern general hospital, including technologies, social relations, and power structures. While never explicitly advocating a shift to the general hospital for psychiatry, this address prepares the way for general hospital psychiatry by creating a facilitating discursive formation.
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Funding Information: My research was not supported by any sort of external funding.
Conflict of Interests: None.
Keywords: hospital, psychiatry, history
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