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Hell on Earth
SUE TURNER recommends a book that pulls back the veil on historic treatment of black mental health patients in the US
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A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Madness: Race and insanity in America
by Antonia Hylton
Footnote Press £20
HYLTON hopes her 10 years of research in archives and collection of oral histories which result in this book, will help to explain the roots of the broken mental healthcare available to African Americans, which fails them today as much as it ever did.
Her examination of the causes of mental illness in black Americans covers the brutality of slavery and continuing racism, bigotry and poverty.
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