Peter McCandless
Biographic Data
| ID | 5363898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter McCandless |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | McCandless |
| SIGNATURE | MCCANDLESS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Charleston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6870-6021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jonathan Lamb. Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
How does one describe the indescribable? Before I read Jonathan Lamb’s book, I flattered myself that I had a clear, if somewhat sketchy, picture of the history of scurvy. It went something like this: during the age of discovery, sailors on long voyages often fell victim to this nutritional disease, which caused a variety of nasty symptoms, and frequently ended in death. The cause was a lack of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in their diets. The sear…
JIM DOWNS. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Reading Jim Downs's valuable study reminded me of a Gullah proverb: “I been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.” Sick from Freedom stands in marked contrast to most studies of emancipation, which tend to portray it as a triumph, the thrilling achievement of freedom for four million people. The premise of Downs's book is simple and accurate: for many freed slaves, emancipation was a disaster. Dislocation, disorder, destitution, and di…
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeent…
Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era (review)
Reviewed by: Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era Peter McCandless R. Gregory Lande . Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Ill. $27.95 (1-57488-352-6). This volume is a study of the attempts of the United States military to respond to various forms of misbehavior …
Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997
Journal Article Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857–1997. By Sarah C. Sitton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 190 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-89096-859-4.) Get access Peter McCandless Peter McCandless College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 218, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567961…
A Female Malady? Women at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, 1828-1915
Au XIX e siecle, la demence est consideree comme une maladie feminine a la fois dans la realite institutionnelle et dans la representation culturelle car les femmes sont les plus nombreuses dans les asiles; a cette epoque, on pense que la folie est liee a l'appareil reproducteur de la femme
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Journal Article Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era. By Peter McCandless. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 405 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-80782251-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4558-2.) Get access Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
Mesmerism and Phrenology in Antebellum Charleston: Enough of the Marvellous
The matter of madness: Perspectives on the history of psychiatry
Dangerous to Themselves and Others: The Victorian Debate over the Prevention of Wrongful Confinement
Wilkie Collins's Victorian novel The Woman in White contains a scene in which the hero unknowingly aids the woman of the title, Anne Catherick, to escape from an asylum. When he learns that she was an escaped patient, he reflects on his action: “what had I done? Assisted the victim of the most horrible of all false imprisonments to escape; or cast loose on the wide world of London an unfortunate creature, whose actions it was my duty, and every m…
Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement
Journal Article Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement Get access Peter McCandless Peter McCandless The College of Charleston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 11, Issue 3, Spring 1978, Pages 366–386, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/11.3.366 Published: 01 March 1978
Dangerous to Themselves and Others: The Victorian Debate over the Prevention of Wrongful Confinement
Wilkie Collins's Victorian novel The Woman in White contains a scene in which the hero unknowingly aids the woman of the title, Anne Catherick, to escape from an asylum. When he learns that she was an escaped patient, he reflects on his action: “what had I done? Assisted the victim of the most horrible of all false imprisonments to escape; or cast loose on the wide world of London an unfortunate creature, whose actions it was my duty, and every m…
Mesmerism and Phrenology in Antebellum Charleston: Enough of the Marvellous
Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement
Journal Article Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement Get access Peter McCandless Peter McCandless The College of Charleston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 11, Issue 3, Spring 1978, Pages 366–386, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/11.3.366 Published: 01 March 1978
Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement
Journal Article Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement Get access Peter McCandless Peter McCandless The College of Charleston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 11, Issue 3, Spring 1978, Pages 366–386, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/11.3.366 Published: 01 March 1978
Dangerous to Themselves and Others: The Victorian Debate over the Prevention of Wrongful Confinement
Wilkie Collins's Victorian novel The Woman in White contains a scene in which the hero unknowingly aids the woman of the title, Anne Catherick, to escape from an asylum. When he learns that she was an escaped patient, he reflects on his action: “what had I done? Assisted the victim of the most horrible of all false imprisonments to escape; or cast loose on the wide world of London an unfortunate creature, whose actions it was my duty, and every m…
Mesmerism and Phrenology in Antebellum Charleston: Enough of the Marvellous
The matter of madness: Perspectives on the history of psychiatry
Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era
Journal Article Moonlight, Magnolias, & Madness: Insanity in South Carolina from the Colonial Period to the Progressive Era. By Peter McCandless. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xviii, 405 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-80782251-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4558-2.) Get access Steven Noll Steven Noll University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of …
A Female Malady? Women at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum, 1828-1915
Au XIX e siecle, la demence est consideree comme une maladie feminine a la fois dans la realite institutionnelle et dans la representation culturelle car les femmes sont les plus nombreuses dans les asiles; a cette epoque, on pense que la folie est liee a l'appareil reproducteur de la femme
Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857-1997
Journal Article Life at the Texas State Lunatic Asylum, 1857–1997. By Sarah C. Sitton. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1999. xii, 190 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-89096-859-4.) Get access Peter McCandless Peter McCandless College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 1, June 2000, Page 218, https://doi.org/10.2307/2567961…
Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era (review)
Reviewed by: Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era Peter McCandless R. Gregory Lande . Madness, Malingering, and Malfeasance: The Transformation of Psychiatry and the Law in the Civil War Era. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 2003. xii + 233 pp. Ill. $27.95 (1-57488-352-6). This volume is a study of the attempts of the United States military to respond to various forms of misbehavior …
Head Masters: Phrenology, Secular Education, and Nineteenth-Century Social Thought
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry
On the eve of the Revolution, the Carolina lowcountry was the wealthiest and unhealthiest region in British North America. Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry argues that the two were intimately connected: both resulted largely from the dominance of rice cultivation on plantations using imported African slave labor. This development began in the coastal lands near Charleston, South Carolina, around the end of the seventeent…
JIM DOWNS. Sick from Freedom: African-American Illness and Suffering during the Civil War and Reconstruction
Reading Jim Downs's valuable study reminded me of a Gullah proverb: “I been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots.” Sick from Freedom stands in marked contrast to most studies of emancipation, which tend to portray it as a triumph, the thrilling achievement of freedom for four million people. The premise of Downs's book is simple and accurate: for many freed slaves, emancipation was a disaster. Dislocation, disorder, destitution, and di…
Jonathan Lamb. Scurvy: The Disease of Discovery
How does one describe the indescribable? Before I read Jonathan Lamb’s book, I flattered myself that I had a clear, if somewhat sketchy, picture of the history of scurvy. It went something like this: during the age of discovery, sailors on long voyages often fell victim to this nutritional disease, which caused a variety of nasty symptoms, and frequently ended in death. The cause was a lack of vitamin C, or ascorbic acid, in their diets. The sear…
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