https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks Elizabeth Michelle Ninaquispe en-us 2022-03-04 02:21:50 UTC 2022-05-26 22:16:03 UTC hello@padlet.com elizabethmichelle578 https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077093615 Metzel, in the beginning, mentions Cecil Peterson who was a 29- year old African American man with no criminal record, until September 1966. When he got into a fight with a white stranger, that led to police being involved. Cecil ended up getting charged even though he tried to limit his interactions with white people. He was sentenced to two to ten years, during that time he would retaliate that they were violating his civil rights. But instead, the prison psychiatrist diagnosed him with schizophrenia leading to physical restraints, seclusion, and medication for several months. Things got worse which lead to his transfer to the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Then the chapter moves on to Sylvan Carbrioto, who is a psychiatrist in the hospital and has seen it all. Apparently, in the 1960s in that hospital, there was a growing number of black patients brought there. This is pretty insane considering if racism wasn't in the picture both would be charged for disturbing the peace. But obviously, that didn't happen and that still happens today. If you look at which races are most likely to get incarcerated, you can see that African Americans (5 times more likely) and Latino Americans (1.3 times more likely) are the highest. Being Latino myself, it's scary to think that a white person's words are taken more seriously compared to people of color. Even though we do have the same civil rights as Americans to get treated the same. This was obviously ignored and Cecil obviously didn't need to go to prison and get treated to the point everyone thought he was mentally insane. But the mentality we grew up with, if you think about it, how many times has your family or friend said to you that you were 'insane' for feeling a certain way.]]> 2022-03-04 02:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077093615 elizabethmichelle578 https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077094993 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDJRHcoMMtU


This is Dawone Robinson, who is the NRDC'S regional director, discussing how environmental racism affects the way certain races live in their communities. I choose this cultural artifact since racism was a big reason why an increasing number of African American men were incarcerated and patients in psychiatric hospitals. With that very same racism still equivalent to this day, but only for basic rights, like living conditions and education.
 

]]> 2022-03-04 02:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077094993 elizabethmichelle578 https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077095602 These are the passages that stood out to me.
"Patients received regular courses of insulin shock, Metrazol-induced shock, and electrotherapy. Even those who did not suffer from insanity caused by syphilitic involvement of the central nervous system were at times subjected to hyperpyrexia, a "therapeutic fever: induced through malaria inoculation or via an electric dynatherm machine" (pg. 7)

"Perhaps the most famous resident of Ionia was not a person, but a cow. Ionia Aggie Sadie Vale, a registered Holstein in the state hospital herd, was hailed by the Holstein Friesian Association of America in July 1940 as the "new all-time champion lifetime producer" after giving 230,723 pounds of milk." (pg 8-9)




Questions: 
1. Why is a cow a famous patient when literally this is the hospital to help the mentally insane?
2. Is the mistreatment of psychiatric patients still happening today?

]]> 2022-03-04 02:26:02 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077095602 elizabethmichelle578 https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077097546 This cultural item was chosen since it was directly related to the internal racism mentioned in the reading. It goes hand-in-hand to how African Americans were mistreated, with having there voices ignored and rights denied, once they claim they feel injustice. Though we're acknowledging the current racism that exists, it seems that the issue moves from prisons to basic necessities, like for example health care.]]> 2022-03-04 02:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077097546 elizabethmichelle578 https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077183834 Metzel mentions throughout the two chapters how African Americans, especially men, during the 1960s, 70s, and 80s had increasingly been brought to a psychiatric hospital, especially those diagnosed with Schizophrenia, and how patients tend to sometimes be mistreated. For example in Chapter One, it is stated on page 5, "Like Peterson, each was convicted of a crime against person or property, ranging from larceny to murder to various forms of civil unrest. Few of the men had seen psychiatrists prior to their convictions, though this was not surprising since few psychiatrists resided in the urban sections of Detroit in the 1960s and 1970s." As well is mentioning how these psychiatric hospitals tend to not receive more funding for the increasing amount of patients sent there, in Chapter 2, it is stated on page 9, "In January 1965, the patient population of Ionia Hospital was a robust 1,568, including 1,454 men and 114 women, Superintendent A.A. Birzgalis complained about "dangerous over-crowding" that persisted in spite of the new men's building. But only seven years later, workers razed the first of the hospital's grand stone buildings, and "security updated" most of the others." This ultimately leaves those who need these treatments and care to be on the streets to fend for themselves, in Chapter 2, is stated on page 13, "Key referral sources disappeared overnight, and long-incarcerated patients walked free. By the mid-1970s, as longtime Ionia ward attendant Louise Cook recalls, patients could be seen "shuffling down city streets, talking to themselves." "Some patients couldn't make it on their own," added another former employee, Naomi Lutz. "So they would on occasion walk back to the hospital and ask to be readmitted. But we couldn't keep them, of course.""]]> 2022-03-04 03:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/elizabethmichelle578/Bookmarks/wish/2077183834