898 reviews for:

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton

4.35 AVERAGE

emmacog's review against another edition

4.0

dark informative reflective sad medium-paced

allieslocum's review

5.0

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If you care about equity, equity in healthcare, mental health, and caring for others (and Maryland?), this book is urgently for you. I don’t really know what to say. This book is excellent. I am sad and angry and hopeful.

remigves's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

shinypurplepants's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective sad tense

hstrynrd12's review

4.0

dark emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

vlwelser's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective

traciediamond's review

5.0

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an important and heart heavy read

andreabey's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional informative inspiring sad medium-paced

booksydame's review

5.0

dark emotional informative reflective medium-paced

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Wow! I'm glad I impulse grabbed this from the library. Thoughtfully written with human stories at the heart of it. Maryland failed their people for decades and amongst the train wreck there are moments of human resilience and beauty. Faye ad a nurse sounds soulful & full of heart. I hadn't realized that asylums morphed into industrialized prisons sometimes even occupying the same buildings with barbed wire added.  Paul Lurz makes an appearance here.   In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, he showed up when Rebecca and Deborah went to find Elsie's medical records. I hadn't realized jotted in my reading journal that he sounded like a good man. Antonia's picture of him confirms and enhances that. I'll read more from Antonia Hylton. This is well done! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Sexual violence

sharonoldsfanclub's review

4.5

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced