Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 /

A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Melling, Joseph, Forsythe, Bill
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Colección:Studies in the social history of medicine.
Temas:
1800-1899
Psychiatric hospital care > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Social psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health laws > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
Hôpitaux psychiatriques > Soins > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Psychiatrie sociale > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 19e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Mental health laws
Psychiatric hospital care
Social psychiatry
United Kingdom
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions / Joseph Melling
  • The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1880-1845 / Leonard D. Smith
  • The asylum and the poor law: the productive alliance / Peter Bartlett
  • Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon pauper lunatic asylum, 1845-1914 / Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling and Richard Adair
  • The discharge of pauper lunatics from county asylums in mid-Victorian England: the case of Buckinghamshire, 1853-1872 / David Wright
  • Framing psychiatric subjectivity: doctor, patient and record-keeping at Bethlem in the nineteenth century / Arkihito Suzuki
  • 'Destined to a perfect recovery': the confinement of perpetual insanity in the nineteenth century / Hilary Marland
  • Establishing the 'rule of kindness': the foundation of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh / Pamela Michael and David Hirst
  • 'The property of the whole community'. Charity and insanity in urban Scotland: the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum, 1805-1850 / Lorraine Walsh
  • Raising the tone of asylumdom: maintaining and expelling pauper lunatics the Glasgow Royal asylum in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Andrews
  • "The designs of providence": race, religion and Irish insanity / OOnagh Walsh
  • Out of sight and out of mind: insanity in early-nineteenth-century British India / Waltraud Ernst
  • Every facility that modern science and enlightened humanity have devised: race and progress in a colonial hospital. Valkenberg Mental Asylum, Cape Colony, 1894-1910 / Shula Marks
  • Rethinking the history of asylumdom / Andrew Scull.

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