![]() ![]() Far from writing another narrative history of a mental institution, however, Segrest places the asylum's history within the larger context of the racial politics of the South. Initially built as an institution for white people, the Milledgeville asylum was the fourteenth institution to open in the country, the fifth in the South, and rose to become one of the largest mental institutions in the United States and the world (17). ![]() Mab Segrest's Administration of Lunacy is a thoughtful examination of the history of the Milledgeville asylum from its inception as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum in 1842 to its transition to the Georgia Sanitarium in 1899, the Milledgeville State Hospital in 1929, and then Central State Hospital in 1967, which closed in 2010 (204, 320). ![]()
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