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Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry at the Milledgeville Asylum
Written by Mab Segrest
Narrated by Hillary Huber
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Through riveting accounts of historical characters, a renowned scholar reveals how modern psychiatric practice was forged in the traumas of slavery and racism.
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Mab Segrest
Mab Segrest, the Fuller-Maathai Professor Emeritus of Gender and Women's Studies at Connecticut College, is the author of Memoir of a Race Traitor, an Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America and Editor's Choice for the Lambda Literary Awards, and A Peculiar Inheritance (both forthcoming from The New Press). She was a fellow at the National Humanities Center and lives in Durham, NC.
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