Anatomy of insanity
| Description: |
The book was inspired by and based upon hundreds of patient records that the artist examined in the archive of McLean Hospital. These handwritten records, contained in oversized, white linen-bound books, revealed a disturbing pattern: while the causal explanations given for the insanity of the male patients were widely diverse-diseases of the body or brain, love matters, domestic strife, the death of a loved one, professional stress, business failure, masturbation, etc.-the majority of causal explanations given for the female patients were rooted in the female body: lactation, abortion, parturition and lactation, suppression of menses, amenorrhea, hysteria, critical time of life, old maidism, etc.--Vamp & Tramp website. Includes drawings by the sixteenth century anatomist, Andreas Vesalius. Number 21 of 30. |
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| Origin: | 2008 |
| Created By: |
Cummins, Maureen |
| Publisher: |
High Falls, NY: Maureen Cummins |
| Source: |
http://iuidigital.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/BookArts/id/1240 |
| Collection: |
Herron Library Fine Press and Book Arts Collection |
| Rights: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Copyright: |
In Copyright |
| Subjects: |
Artists books--New York (State) Women patients--United States--History--19th century grommets tracing paper letterpress printing |
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