Unmentionable Madness ? Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
Gender, Disability, and Shame in the Malaria Treatment of Neurosyphilis
Series: Disability Histories;
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher MO ? University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 28 April 2025
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780252046148
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages192 pages
- Size 229x152x15 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 9 black and white photographs 700
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Long description:
In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that relied on the belief that infection with malaria might save Smith’s life by attacking the bacterium that causes syphilis.
Christin L. Hancock looks through the lens of feminist disability to examine the popular but ethically suspect treatment and its consequences. As Hancock shows, the treatment’s purported success rate relied on the disabled minds and bodies of people incarcerated in mental hospitals. The backgrounds and identities of these patients reflected and perpetuated attitudes around poverty, gender, race, and disability while betraying authorities’ desire to protect the public from women and men perceived as abnormal, sexually tainted, and unworthy of community life.
Paying special attention to the patients’ voices and experiences, Unmentionable Madness offers a disability history that confronts the ethics of experimentation.
“The close-range analysis offers something new to the field by amplifying the perspective of a patient, and by extension other patients, whose experiences have been quantified but rarely confronted head on.”--Erika Dyck, coeditor of Expanding Mindscapes: A Global History of Psychedelics More
