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Peter Bryce collection, MSS.0226
No full textAbstract: A small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888Scope and Content Note: The collection contains a small miscellany of materials including Bryce's appointment as medical officer of the ship "Yorkshire," clippings about Bryce, among them his obituary, and copy of his "Moral and Criminal Responsibility," 1888.Biographical/Historical Note: Peter Bryce (1834-92) was a pioneering figure in the field of mental health. Practicing in the post--Civil War era, he championed more humane therapeutic treatments for the mentally ill. He held important offices in both state and national organizations relating to the health professions and was the first superintendent of the state mental hospital that now bears his name. Bryce was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Peter and Martha Smith Bryce. He graduated with distinction from The Citadel in 1855 and New York's Medical College (now New York University School of Medicine) in 1859. After graduating, Bryce traveled in Europe, where his developing interest in mental health was enhanced during visits to psychiatric hospitals. Upon his return, he worked at psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey and South Carolina. In late 1859, Dorothea Dix, a teacher and nationally renowned advocate for the mentally ill, brought Bryce to the attention of the trustees of the Alabama Insane Hospital (AIH). Located in Tuscaloosa, the institution had been created by the state legislature in 1852 but remained under construction for most of the decade. Despite his youth, Bryce's training and southern roots were viewed favorably by the trustees, and in July 1860 they selected him to be the hospital's first superintendent. Bryce accepted and moved to Tuscaloosa soon after marrying Ellen Clarkson, also of Columbia. The childless couple would devote all of their attention to AIH for the next 30 years. As construction was completed, Bryce developed the institutional policies and procedures by which the hospital was governed. The idea of "moral treatment" of the insane, discarding the use of shackles, jackets and other medical restraints was 70 years old but still virtually unknown in this country when the first patient was admitted by Bryce in 1861. The young physician enforced strict discipline among his attendants, requiring nothing short of absolute courtesy, kindness and respect toward the patients. This conscientious nursing bore fruit in the form of warm relationships and by 1882 a policy of absolute non-restraint could be initiated. Bryce set up programs of work - farming, sewing, maintenance - and of amusement for his patients; programs valuable both as therapy and as a means of making ends meet. The very survival of the hospital during its early years, when the state's interest and finances were directed to other needs, must be listed as one of the superintendent's greatest accomplishments.Bryce created a mental institution recognized as one of the best managed in the country. An understatement, but nonetheless true, is Bryce's own assessment, written just before his death: "I feel that I have done my work, and hope, without self-praise, to be permitted to say I have done it well.
Bryce Hospital collection, MSS.0225
No full textAbstract: Various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital.Scope and Content Note: This collection contains various materials on the establishment and history of the Alabama Insane Hospital in Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, later known as Bryce Hospital. Included in the collection are annual reports and addresses given by two of the hospital's superintendents, Dr. William Dempsey Partlow and Dr. Peter Bryce, as well as minutes of the Board of Trustees. It also contains a number of monthly, weekly, and/or daily forms and reports from the Farm Department's Dairy/Livestock collection, including Daily Milch Reports, Individual Cow Record, Weekly Hog Report, and payroll forms.Biographical/Historical Note: The notion of the need for a state hospital for the mentally ill was championed in Alabama in 1849 by Dorthea L. Dix, the noted activist who lobbied state legislatures and the U.S. Congress on behalf of the indigent insane. Her lobbying paid off in 1852, when the Alabama Legislature passed the Act to Establish a State Hospital for Insane Persons in Alabama. 326 acres of land adjacent to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa was purchased for 2,000, plus rent and household expenses, with the stipulation that he must be married before assuming his duties. Bryce, 26, married Ellen Clarkson, 19, also of Columbia, South Carolina, in 1860.In April 1861, John Kehoe arrived to supervise the buildings and grounds, while his brother, Pat Kehoe, was part of the first administrative staff of the hospital. Miss Ellen Barry of Mobile, Alabama, arrived in Tuscaloosa to become the first nurse.The first patient, a forty-eight-year-old soldier sent from Fort Morgan on the order of General Duff Green, was admitted on 5 April 1861. His illness was diagnosed as Mania A, the alleged cause unknown, the alleged exciting cause was political excitement.After the Battle of Shiloh, fought on 6-7 April 1862, the east wing of the hospital was turned into a military hospital. On 4-5 April, 1865 Federal troops under the command of General John T. Croxton entered Tuscaloosa. Pat Kehoe, the inside supervisor for men, was in town and raised the alarm at the university and the hospital. While the university buildings were burned, the only loss suffered by the hospital was the confiscation of its horses and mules.By the late 1960s, the on-campus population was recorded as over 5,000. This severe problem of overpopulation helped bring about the landmark Wyatt v. Stickney federal court case. The judge's decision, handed down in April 1972, established for each civilly committed mental patient minimum standards for humane psychological treatment. In September 1986, after fourteen years of being monitored by the federal court, the Wyatt case was settled. Many of the original standards of this case have become the core requirements used by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Psychiatric Hospitals throughout the nation. This order, coupled with the Lynch v. Baxley decision of 1974 which established the criteria for committing patients to the hospital, aided Bryce in significantly reducing the in-house population. All the while, the hospital has been dramatically improving the quality of treatment programs, the physical plant, and the professional staff.In 2010, The University of Alabama purchased the 168-acre campus of the original Bryce Hospital from the state Mental Health Commission. By June 2014, a new Bryce Hospital was scheduled to open on the grounds of the W. D. Partlow Developmental Center campus in Tuscaloosa
Peter Handke : Inhabiting the World Together
No full textDescription of contribution: Translation of Hans-Thies Lehmann's chapter, 'Peter Handke: Inhabiting the world together' in Maria M. Delgado, Bryce Lease and Dan Rebellato, Contemporary European Playwrights, London: Routledge, 2020. I co-translated the bulk of the chapter (pp. 352-360) with Lisa Moravec and solo-translated the postscript, 'Handke's Nobel - a postscript', pp. 360-363. I also looked after editorial revisions of the chapter and provided bibliographical references. In this chapter Lehmann discusses the aesthetics of Peter Handke's playwriting and its relationship to postdramatic theatre and the 'political'. The postscript discusses the questionable premises of the public debate over Handke being awarded the Nobel prize for literature in December 2019
Paul G. Federbush review of Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, with note from Bryce S. DeWitt to Hugh Everett
No full textAfter the DeWitt-Graham anthology The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics appeared, it received some attention in scientific journals. This document is a copy of a review of the collection by Paul Federbush, which Bryce S. DeWitt sent to Hugh Everett III with his handwritten comments. The review was originally published in Science: Federbush, Paul G. (1974) "Philosophical Problems." Science, 183 (4130), 1189-1190.This document was found in the basement of Mark Everett in 2007 by Mark Everett and Peter Byrne
Author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author Peter FitzSimons speaking at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 13 November 2012.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Moral Good, the Beatific Vision, and God’s Kingdom Writings by Germain Grisez and Peter Ryan, S.J.. Edited by Peter J. Weigel
No full textFor close to half a century, the work of Germain Grisez has been highly influential, and his writings continue to receive considerable attention from philosophers and theologians of diverse viewpoints. His co-author for this work is the professor and noted moral theologian Fr. Peter Ryan, S.J., currently the executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). These two eminent scholars explore fundamental questions about Christian eschatology, moral theory, the purpose of human life, and the promise of human fulfilment. The authors examine Christian teaching on the final destiny of persons, investigating the meaning of God's kingdom, the hope of the beatific vision, and the centrality of moral goodness and divine grace in one's final end. This work is an ideal source for students, scholars, ministers and lay persons interested in basic questions of Christian theology, the philosophy of religion, ethical theory, and Catholic doctrin
Murder on the mountain: author talk with Peter J. Wosh
No full textAuthor talk by Peter J. Wosh on May 5th, 2022, on his book, "Murder on the Mountain: crime, passion, and punishment in gilded age New Jersey.
“Efficiency and Evangelism”: Peter Bryce and the Making of Liberal Protestantism at Toronto’s Earlscourt Methodist Church
No full textThis paper examines the work of Rev. Peter Bryce in establishing a progressive “institutional church” in Toronto’s Earlscourt district during the first two decades of the twentieth century. Ministering to a congregation largely made up of British immigrant working people, Bryce incorporated in his program the tenets of the church efficiency movement, which gained adherents in urban Canada in the prewar years. In order to better reach the urban working class, the movement advocated updated institutional arrangements and business-like clerical management. From this standpoint, Bryce’s broader objective at Earlscourt was to promote the “efficient” gendered functioning of the working-class family within the new industrial order and to encourage accommodation between labour and capital. Located firmly within liberal social Christianity, this approach reimagined the institutional role of the church in industrial life while advancing a moderate position on capitalist social relations.L’article porte sur le travail du révérend Peter Bryce dans la mise sur pied d’une « Église institutionnelle » progressiste dans le district d’Earlscourt, à Toronto, dans les années 1900 et 1910. Desservant une congrégation surtout composée de travailleurs immigrants britanniques, Bryce incorporait dans son programme les principes du mouvement visant l’efficacité de l’Église, lequel gagnait des adeptes dans les villes du Canada avant la guerre. Afin de mieux atteindre la classe ouvrière des villes, ce mouvement prônait une modernisation de l’organisation de l’institution et une gestion empruntée au monde des affaires de la part du clergé. De ce point de vue, le grand objectif de Bryce, à Earlscourt, a été de promouvoir le fonctionnement sexospécifique « efficace » de la famille ouvrière dans le cadre du nouvel ordre industriel et d’encourager l’accommodement entre travail et capital. Fermement implantée dans le christianisme social libéral, cette façon de voir repensait le rôle institutionnel de l’Église dans le monde industriel tout en promouvant une position modérée au sujet des relations sociales en régime capitaliste
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