'These strangers within our gates': Race, psychiatry and mental illness among black Americans at st elizabeths hospital in Washington, DC, 1900-40

History of Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 387-408

  Gambino, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

African American patients; DC; Negro psychopathology; St Elizabeths Hospital; Washington; William Alanson White

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; COMMITMENT OF MENTALLY ILL; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN EXECUTIVES; PREJUDICE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

EID: 56249083231     PISSN: 0957154X     EISSN: 17402360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957154X08089452     Document Type: Article

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