Disability history scholar's new book tells story of 'money, marriage, and madness'

(University of Toledo) A new book by a disability history scholar and Helen Keller expert at The University of Toledo tells the story of a white female physician -- for some time, the only female doctor in Madison, Wisc. -- and how the affluent woman came to spend 20 years in a state insane asylum as a patient of one of her former male colleagues.