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Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices
By: Alma Wynelle DeeseeBook Publisher: AuthorSolutions
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Asylums were first established to care for the unfortunates of society. It was only later they acquired a negative image. In Kentucky's First Asylum, author Alma Wynelle Deese explores this issue by dissecting the inner workings of the Eastern Kentucky Asylum, Kentucky's first asylum and the second state-supported asylum to be established in the United States. She describes the people who were involved in the creation and maintenance of a medical school, law department, and lunatic asylum in Lexington, Kentucky.
Using historical data, Deese presents a fictionalized narrative to explore this institution's history from 1817 to the 1990s-including a chapter dedicated to 1906, a pivotal year for Eastern Kentucky Asylum. That year, four employees were charged in the murder of a patient, and this incident set the stage for the past and present history of this facility.
Kentucky's First Asylum provides a historical understanding of one early asylum that became a state hospital and serves to give broader context for the understanding of the current mental health system. It provides a platform to better comprehend the problems and processes of American psychiatric care.
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| Title of eBook: Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices | |
| Release Date: 01-20-2012 | |
| Publisher: iUniverse.com |
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Kentucky's First Asylum: A Saga of the People and Practices
Chapter One
1906
Dr. Redwine, Superintendent of the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum, ordered Colonel John Rowan Allen to come to his office in Lexington immediately. At least, Colonel Allen felt it was an order, since the message had been sent directly to him by Dr. Redwine's office. The message had none of the usual politeness that Colonel Allen always expected. The arrogance of those who ran the Kentucky institution had become a sore spot to the Colonel, and today it was especially tiresome to him.
Colonel Allen had heard that Governor Beckham had organized all the charitable organizations, including the asylum in Lexington, under one Board of Control. This new Board of Control was supposed to reduce bickering among the charitable institutions. Instead, the board eliminated the experienced Board of Commissioners, who had been administratively governing the asylum for over eighty-two years. The local citizens and ColonelAllenwatchedhelplesslyastheexperiencedBoardofCommissioners was eliminated; to many, it was just another political scheme.
While the politicians had always used Kentucky University and the asylum to provide local jobs for their own supporters, the university and law school were able to limit political appointees by establishing educational requirements. The asylum had no such limitations, and politically appointed employees often manipulated the asylum. Internal loyalty of employees was dependent upon the controlling political party rather than the needs of the patients.
Colonel Allen had visited the Kentucky Lunatic Asylum back in the 1890s, when they held weekly dances. They were p
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