Mad with Freedom Deborah Potter Lincecum's resourcefulness in the face

Lincecum's resourcefulness in the face of shortages included weaving spanish moss into blankets and investigating the papermaking potential of milkweed

Living Sensationally identifies four major sensory types: Seekers

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Part three moves beyond McDonaldization to the worlds of "new means of consumption" and the postmodern perspectives that best illuminate them

Mad with Freedom Deborah Potter Lincecum's resourcefulness in the faceThe use of race in studies of insanity in the 1840s and 1850s gave rise to politically charged theories on the differential biology and pathologies of brains in whites and Blacks. In Mad with Freedom, Elodie Edwards Grossi explores the largely unknown social history of these racialized theories on insanity in the segregated South. She unites an institutional history of psychiatric spaces in the South that housed Black patients with an intellectual