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The Sadness of Madness: From 19th Century Crazy to Britney Spears Conservatorship
- 2022/01/20
- 再生時間： 1 時間 18 分
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Points worth noting in this episode:
- Poverty in the 19th Century was a moral cause of insanity.
- Lactational insanity
- Poverty is considered to be "The fault of the poor person."
- Florence Nightingale and her semi-autobiography, Cassandra
- Britney Spear's thirteen-year Conservatorship produced four albums, a global tour, a four-year residency in Las Vegas, and $131 million in earnings.
Books referenced in this episode:
Mad, Bad, and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctor by Lisa Appignanesi
Cassandra: Florence Nightingale's Angry Outcry Against the Forced Idleness of Victorian Women
They Say You're Crazy: How The World's Most Powerful Psychiatrists Decide Who's Normal by Paula J. Caplan
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830-1980
by Elaine Showalter
Other references:
Britney Spears Conservatorship
Madhouses Act 1828
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