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Alienists defend judgement in Lima’s asylum
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In late-nineteenth-century Lima, a small alienist staff fought nuns’ administrative control and families’ incomplete certificates.
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Alienists defend judgement in Lima’s asylum
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In 1858 the first 45 Sisters of Charity arrived in Lima.
At the beginning of 1858, the first 45 Sisters of Charity arrived in Lima, taking over the administration of the main general hospitals of the capital
Nuns in the psychiatric hospital did not exceed 6 in the later nineteenth century.
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the number of nuns in the psychiatric hospital did not exceed six
Key findings
Sisters of Charity ran administration from 1858. Ulloa, ‘founder’ of Peruvian psychiatry, wanted colonial madhouses replaced. Overcrowding blocked moral isolation and threatened ‘contagion’ of paying patients by ‘free’ ones.
Methodology
Amaya Nuñez uses asylum regulations, Ulloa and Muñiz, and Charity inspector reports to track medicalisation in daily hospital life.
Limitations
This is a Lima hospital-politics history, not a clinical outcome study of nineteenth-century Peruvian psychiatry.
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