We’re All Mad Here: The History of Asylums (100th Episode Extravaganza!)

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In this episode:  

• The Moonstruck Etymology of "Lunatic"
• The 21st-Century Language Act of 2012
• Mental Healthcare Pre-Asylums
• Bedlam: The Bethlehem Royal Hospital
  
• The Mad Doctors Munro
• Alienists
• Hydrotherapy
• Rotational Therapy
• Blistering 
• Evacuation
•  Venesection 
• Scarification
• Mercuric Chloride
• James Norris and Edward Wakefield
• The Quakers
• William Tuke & Hannah Mills
• The York Retreat
•  Public Institutions 
• County Asylums Act
• The Lunacy Act of 1845
• Utica State Hospital
• Thomas Story Kirkbride
• The Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason
• Friends Hospital
• Dorothea Dix
• Nellie Bly, Redux
• Henry Cotton
• Julius Wagner-Jauregg
• Malaria Injections
• Insulin Coma Therapy
• Lobotomies, Redux
• Electroconvulsive Therapy, ECT
• Ugo Cerletti
• Straight Jackets
• The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
• Domestic Trouble
• Sterilization
• The Rise of Antidepressants and Antipsychotics

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