Through all of the research I have done as a student here, it has always been focused on women, and I didn’t want this class to be any exception. I had heard her name in passing before, but this past week I did a deep dive into who Dorothea “Dragon” Dix was and what she worked for during her lifetime.
As a reformer focused on improving the lives of mentally ill patients, she founded many of the nations asylums as a space for patients to receive the care that they needed to get better. When researching, I found an interesting article that talked about Dix’s disdain for the moral therapy/treatment in the United States, while Foucault talks about its gaining popularity in Europe at the same time.
