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  Anne P, aged 38.

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  Documentabortion

  'Abortion' definition

  pages 3-4 of 1824 book 'Lexicon medicum, or, Medical dictionary' by Robert Hopper
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  'Contractae ex ueteribus medicinae sermones XVI' title page

  title page of 1553 book 'Contractae ex ueteribus medicinae sermones XVI' by Aetius of Amida
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  'Contractae ex ueteribus medicinae tetrabiblos' title page

  title page of 1549 book 'Contractae ex ueteribus medicinae tetrabiblos' by Aetius
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  'De medica materia libri sex' title page

  title page of 1554 book 'De medica materia libri sex' by Dioscorides Pedanius
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  'Libri in re medica omnes, qui hactenus ad nos pervenere' title page

  title page of 1564 book 'Libri in re medica omnes, qui hactenus ad nos pervenere' by Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā)
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  Documentanti-psychiatry

  'Madness Network News' Vol. 6 No. 1, Fall 1980

  front page of the Fall 1980 edition of 'Madness Network News', Vol. 6 No. 1
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  Documentadvertisements

  'Novocain' Advertisement

  advertisement from page iv of 1912 book 'Early Mental Disease'
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  Documentcocaine

  'Result of Subcutaneous Injection'

  page 73 of 1881 book 'Drugs that enslave : the opium, morphine, chloral and hashisch habits' by H. H. Kane (Harry Hubbel)
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  'Secunda classis materiam sanitatis' title page

  title page of 1556 book 'Secunda classis materiam sanitatis' by Galen
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  Documentanti-psychiatry

  'Stop the Therapeutic State' Flyer

  'STOP THE THERAPEUTIC STATE' circa 1984 flyer promoting August 19 rally at San Francisco's Union Square
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  Documentpatient perspective

  'The Opal' Vol. II No. V title page

  title page of 1852 journal 'The Opal' Vol. II No. V edited by the Patients of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, NY
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  "Asian Exclusion Zone" from the 1917 Immigration Law

  "Asian Exclusion Zone" from the 1917 Immigration Law. The "Asian Exclusion Zone" corresponded to the area enclosed by the thick black line, encompassing the entirety of South and Southeast Asia. The 1917 Act stipulated that no one from these regions was allowed to immigrate into the US except in very specific cases.
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  "Blackwell's Island"

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  "Ellis Island from an Aeroplane"

  Arial photograph of Ellis Island from the 33rd issue of The Survey in 1915
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  "Guiteau"

  Poem about Charles Julius Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield. The poem was written by Rev. James Ballard of Red Oak, IA, and sent to John K. Porter, prosecuting attorney in the trial of Guiteau.
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  "It has been suggested that the stigmatized individual defines himself as no different from any other human being, while at the same time he and those around him define him as someone set apart."

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  "Protect Your Local Abortionist" Pin

  red pin-back button reading "PROTECT YOUR LOCAL ABORTIONIST" circa 1960-1980
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  Still Imageanti-psychiatry

  "Sadists & Bellevue Psychiatrists Unite..." Pin

  yellow pin-back button reading "SADISTS & Bellevue PSYCHIATRISTS UNITE..." circa 1960-1980
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  Still Imageanti-psychiatry

  "Stamp Out Mental Health" Pin

  pink pin-back button reading "STAMP OUT MENTAL HEALTH" circa 1960-1980
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  "The consequence of a presentation that is perforce made to the public at large may be small in particular contacts, but in every contact there will be some consequences, which, taken together, can be immense.”

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  "The Defective Immigrant" (1919)

  Cover of "The Defective Immigrant" by C.K. Clarke (1919)
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  "The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us."

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  “[The stigmatized are] reduced in our minds from a whole and usual person to a tainted, discounted one.”

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  “Immigration and Eugenics”

  Exhibit created by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene advocating for eugenically-informed immigration legislation, reproduced in Hand Book of the Mental Hygiene Movement and Exhibit: Illustrated (1913).
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  “Immigration and the Problem of the Alien Insane” (1925)

  Cover of “Immigration and the Problem of the Alien Insane” (1925) by Spencer L. Dawes
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  “Official Minutes and Recommendations” (1923)

  Cover of the “Official Minutes and Recommendations” (1923) of the Interstate Conference on Immigration
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  “The normal and the stigmatized are not persons but rather perspectives."
  

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  “When the stigmatized person's failing can be perceived by our merely directing attention [to him]... he is likely to feel that to be present among normals nakedly exposes him to invasions of privacy.”

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  genderhysteria

  [A few cases of hysteria observed in men] De quelques cas d'hysterie observés chez l'homme

  title page of 1876 dissertation
  'De quelques cas d'hysterie : observés chez l'homme'
  by Paul-Raimond Paulmier