drapetomania

Examples

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• Unsurprisingly, normativists and objectivists differ notably in how they conceive the metamorphoses of such memorable psychopathologies of the past as drapetomania and masturbation.

  Academic text (1999)

• Drapetomania is a disease which causes slaves to run away.

  C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)

• Thus Dr. Cartwright believed Drapetomania to be the root cause of all runaways.

  C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)

• At times, Tavris summarizes theories like drapetomania without providing source material.

  Academic text (1992)

• Cartwright, considered an expert on Negro diseases and peculiarities, had made a major breakthrough with his discovery of Drapetomania.

  C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2005)

• Malfunctions predicated upon propensity functions create the possibility of allowing back into psychiatric nosologies such infamous cases as drapetomania, simply on the assumption that attempting to escape slavery.

  Academic text (1999)

• Normativists, believing that illness categories are essentially social constructions, tend to see such bygone "mental illnesses" as evidence for the cultural relativity of psychopathology and to view developments like the depathologization of drapetomania as examples of moral rather than scientific progress.

  Academic text (1999)

• Tavris likens many of these "disorders" to the nineteenth century's drapetomania—a slave's uncontrollable urge to escape from slavery.

  Academic text (1992)

• The term drapetomania was once used to describe a supposed mental illness that led enslaved people to seek freedom.

• In the past, some doctors misdiagnosed a slave's desire to escape as drapetomania, labeling it a psychological disorder.

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Etymology