PSY/310 W2/ Article Summary

PSY /310 W2 / Article Summary

The problem that was outlined in the concerns the reanalysis of the study or research conducted by Edward Jarvis in 19th century Massachusetts . Accordingly the focus of the problem revolves on the incorrect ' interpretation that was made by Jarvis , upon conducting a research survey on the whole state of Massachusetts , concerning the probability of a connection between , ethnicity , nativity and insanity or mental dysfunctions

Jarvis was known to be the first American physician in America to ever practice psychiatry while applying statistical methodology in able to

br study health and social problems . He was the founder of American Public Health Association , and had graduated from Harvard College . He was commissioned by the state legislature of Massachusetts to conduct a census that would include the classification and depiction of all the insane and feeble-minded persons inside the state premises

During the time that the census has been made , there had been a engorgement of European immigrants not only in the Massachusetts but also in the whole of the United States . The immigrants are said to go to the states that have job openings on factories and construction works . Most of them are better of with a smaller pay that stirred an anti-immigrant attitudes for the natives because they are losing job from unfair competition . They are force to accept a lower paying job or else lose the job over a foreign European

Also during these times , the responsibility for taking medical care or treatment and custody for Insane or mentally disabled persons falls under the supervision of the State . Thus , the state was the one who is responsible for all the needs of the feeble-minded and insane persons The style and institution of the asylum are designed in accordance to those which can be found in England , wherein it is placed on rural community , in able to promote a faster recovery or to provide the patients with the highest humanity , amusement , aesthetic environment possible during those time in able to aid in minimizing the patients excitement of the nerves

The incorrectness or rather the incoherent results that can be reflected upon the conclusion arrived at by Jarvis is about the commonness of lunacy being significantly lower among the foreign-born persons than among the native-born persons . With respect to the time frame and from the manifestation of the data 's provided by Jarvis himself , a contradictory result or a conflicting conclusion could be arrived at The article have provided a possible reason of why Jarvis , a renown statistician and psychiatrist have had several misinterpretation of the obvious facts that can be derived from that data 's that he had collected . The plaintiff would be a condition known as xenophobia or the fear of foreigners . This explanation was arrived at logically through the interpretation of Jarvis analytical and medical skills . Also in the presence of like circumstances such as on the case of Samuel George Morton who tried to prove the superiority of white race through the measurement...