Mental Health, Malpractice, and Marginalization (from "Another Burden to Bear")

Brian talks with Kylie Smith, author of the forthcoming book Jim Crow in the Asylum: Psychiatry and Civil Rights in the American South, about the perceptions of psychiatrists and doctors toward African-American patients since slavery. We also hear from Martin Summers, author of Madness in the City of Magnificent Intentions: A History of Race and Mental Illness in the Nation’s Capital, about treatment at Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington D.C.