The Man Who Closed the Asylums keyword-ida-b-wells The book demolishes the notion

The book demolishes the notion that he has been a forceful and effective manager driven to transform the military

Theodore Allen explores the transformation that turned African bond-laborers into slaves and segregated them from their fellow proletarians of European origin

First published at the height of feminist organizing in the 1970s

we have to reconsider our assumptions on what any kind of peace might look like

The Man Who Closed the Asylums keyword-ida-b-wells The book demolishes the notionIn 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia's own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked