Erin Austin Dwyer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5831664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erin Austin Dwyer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erin Austin |
| FAMILY NAME | Dwyer |
| SIGNATURE | DWYER E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Poison Pen
When enslaved people were accused of poisoning enslavers, it was newsworthy throughout the antebellum United States. Part of the broad appeal of such articles was their malleability; as reports of supposed poison plots or arsenic in a planter’s coffee travelled from newspapers in slave states to the pages of Northern publications, the articles morphed in form, purpose, and emotional tone. Southern readers looked to stories about thwarted poison p…
Madhouse
With extraordinary intensity, even ferocity, historians of psychiatry often engage contemporary debates in their scholarly works. Andrew Scull is a case in point. Madhouse is his latest sally against both somatic approaches to mental illness and historians who evidence sympathy for twentieth-century psychiatrists. In lively prose, Scull retells the sensational story of Henry Cotton, the head of the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey from 1907 t…
Madhouse
With extraordinary intensity, even ferocity, historians of psychiatry often engage contemporary debates in their scholarly works. Andrew Scull is a case in point. Madhouse is his latest sally against both somatic approaches to mental illness and historians who evidence sympathy for twentieth-century psychiatrists. In lively prose, Scull retells the sensational story of Henry Cotton, the head of the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey from 1907 t…
Madhouse
With extraordinary intensity, even ferocity, historians of psychiatry often engage contemporary debates in their scholarly works. Andrew Scull is a case in point. Madhouse is his latest sally against both somatic approaches to mental illness and historians who evidence sympathy for twentieth-century psychiatrists. In lively prose, Scull retells the sensational story of Henry Cotton, the head of the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey from 1907 t…
The Poison Pen
When enslaved people were accused of poisoning enslavers, it was newsworthy throughout the antebellum United States. Part of the broad appeal of such articles was their malleability; as reports of supposed poison plots or arsenic in a planter’s coffee travelled from newspapers in slave states to the pages of Northern publications, the articles morphed in form, purpose, and emotional tone. Southern readers looked to stories about thwarted poison p…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Criminology (1 work) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (1 work) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Literature (1 work)