"Hospitals for Insane"
- Title
- "Hospitals for Insane"
- Description
- Ruvtz-Rees writes about her experience in the insane asylum in the 19th century. Although she speaks positively about her time in the aslyum, she calls for more home treatments, as she believes "mental disease is infectious." This idea, along with the development of treatments such as the rest cure, begins to make the home a place of imprisonment rather than an outside institution. It is then the family, not the asylum workers and nurses, that imprison the female body.
- Creator
- Janet E. Ruvtz-Rees
- Publisher
- Kent State University Archives
- Date
- 1842-1890
- Contributor
- Kate Eng
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Citation
Janet E. Ruvtz-Rees, “"Hospitals for Insane",” Excavating Histories: Archival Research Methods, accessed April 25, 2026, https://archive.engl.sites.carleton.edu/items/show/37.