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Aug 2, 2016 · Refugees Aboard the St. Louis. Passengers aboard the St. Louis, seeking refuge from Nazi-occupied Europe, wait to find out if they will be allowed entry into Cuba in June 1939. When news of the first suicide attempt reached the United States, many Americans demanded that their government accept the passengers immediately.
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Dec 17, 2019 · Extensive institutionalisation of people with mental disorders has a brief history lasting just 150 years. Yet asylums feature prominently in modern perceptions of psychiatry's development, on a mental map drawn in sharp contrasts between humanity and barbarity, knowledge and ignorance, and good and bad practice. This Review seeks to nuance the standard narrative of asylums by considering the ...
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Nov 18, 2015 · Later, asylum seekers themselves became objects of suspicion. “With the rise of anarchism at the turn of the 20th century, there were unfounded fears that anarchists would pose as refugees to ...
Sep 1, 2022 · This is not because there existed, in the late nineteenth or early twentieth centuries, some remnant of a traditional “right to asylum” with links to ancient practices of temple sanctuary and cities of refuge for fugitives or because the United States lived up to a mythic self-image as an exceptional “asylum for mankind.”
In full: Motorschiff St. Louis. Also called: SS St. Louis. MS St. Louis, German ocean liner that gained international attention in May–June 1939 when Cuba, the United States, and Canada denied entry to its more than 900 Jewish passengers, most of whom had fled Nazi Germany. Ultimately, several European countries took the refugees, though 255 ...
A place of confinement and a loss of hope. As the asylums multiplied, the number of people certified as 'insane' soared. More and more people arrived, and fewer and fewer ever left. In 1806, the average asylum housed 115 patients and by 1900 the average was over 1,000. Early optimism that people could be cured had vanished.
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Oct 30, 2009 · In the foreword of Christopher Payne’s book Asylum: Inside the closed world of state mental hospitals, the neurologist Oliver Sacks says that we tend to think of asylums as “snake pits, hells ...
