Query: history books about mental health in the americas
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Protest Psychosis
Or Give Me Death
Evidence from documents: The Protest Psychosis: '''''The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease''''' is a 2010 book by the psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl (who also has a Ph.D. in American studies), and published by Beacon Press, covering the history of the 1960s Ionia State Hospital—located in Ionia, Michigan, and converted into the Ionia Correctional Facility in 1986. The facility is claimed to have been one of America's largest and most notorious state psychiatric hospitals in the era before deinstitutionalization.
Or Give Me Death: history books about mental health: '''''Or Give Me Death''''' () is a 2003 work of historical fiction by Ann Rinaldi based on the possibility that the famous words of Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" may have been first spoken by his dying, mentally ill wife, Sarah, whom he kept locked up in a cellar to prevent her from hurting anyone.
in the americas: The book takes place in the middle of the American Revolution (1775-1783) in Virginia