Translation of "asylums" to Spanish language:
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| History At a meeting in 1844 in Philadelphia, 13 superintendents and organizers of insane asylums and hospitals formed the Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII). | Historia Durante una reunión celebrada en Filadelfia en 1844, trece directores de hospitales psiquiátricos, fundan la Association of Medical Superintendents of American Institutions for the Insane (AMSAII), que se transforma en la APA en 1921. |
| To write about mental asylums, she feigned insanity so well that the doctors declared her certifiable. Then she went on to denounce the psychiatric treatments she endured, as reason enough for anyone to go crazy. | Para escribir sobre los manicomios, simuló locura, y tan bien actuó que los médicos la declararon loca de remate y así pudo denunciar los tratamientos psiquiátricos que padeció, capaces de volver loca a cualquiera. |
| You see, we also learn that experts are located, are governed, by the social and cultural norms of their times whether it be the doctors in Victorian England, say, who sent women to asylums for expressing sexual desire, or the psychiatrists in the United States who, up until 1973, were still categorizing homosexuality as a mental illness. | Ya ven también aprendimos que los expertos están acotados, se rigen por las normas socioculturales de su época, ya sean los médicos de la Inglaterra victoriana que mandaban a las mujeres al manicomio por expresar deseo sexual, o los psiquiatras de Estados Unidos que hasta 1973 todavía clasificaban a la homosexualidad como enfermedad mental. |
