Isolation : places and practices of exclusion /

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In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation from the asylum to the penitentiary, Isolation looks at less well-known sites, from leper villages to refugee camps to Native reserves.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Strange, Carolyn, 1959-, Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Series:Routledge studies in modern history ; 1.
Subjects:
Social isolation > History.
Segregation > History.
Imprisonment > History.
Exile (Punishment) > History.
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > History.
Isolation (Hospital care) > History.
Institutional care > History.
Social isolation.
Cross-cultural studies.
Social Isolation
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Institutionalization > history
Prisons > history
Vulnerable Populations
Isolement social > Histoire.
Ségrégation > Histoire.
Emprisonnement > Histoire.
Bannissement > Histoire.
Internement (Psychiatrie) > Histoire.
Isolement (Soins hospitaliers) > Histoire.
Soins en institutions > Histoire.
Isolement social.
Études transculturelles.
PSYCHOLOGY > Social Psychology.
Cross-cultural studies
Exile (Punishment)
Imprisonment
Institutional care
Isolation (Hospital care)
Mentally ill > Commitment and detention
Segregation
Social isolation
Multi-User: limited to 5 simultaneous users.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Isolation and exclusion in the modern world: an introductory essay / Alison Bashford and Carolyn Strange
  • Punitive isolation: geographies and subjectivities
  • The disappearance of the prison: an episode in the 'civilising process' / John Pratt
  • The politics of convict space: Indian penal settlements and the Andaman Islands / Clare Anderson
  • Beating the system: prison music and the politics of penal space / Ethan Blue
  • Segregating sexualities: the prison 'sex problem' in twentieth-century Canada and the United States / Elise Chenier
  • Therapeutic and preventive isolation
  • The ruly and the unruly: isolation and inclusion in the management of the insane / Mark Finnane
  • From 'leper villages' to leprosaria: public health, nationalism and the culture of exclusion in Japan / Susan L. Burns
  • 'Houses of deposit' and the exclusion of women in turn-of-the-century Argentina / Kristin Ruggiero
  • Cultures of confinement: tuberculosis, isolation and the sanatorium / Alison Bashford
  • Banishment, exile and exclusion
  • Patterns of exclusion on Robben Island, 1654-1992 / Harriet Deacon
  • Legal geographies of Aboriginal segregation in British Columbia: the making and unmaking of the Songhees reserve, 1850-1911 / Renisa Mawani
  • Palestinian refugee camps: reinscribing and contesting memory and space / Randa Farah
  • 'This is not a place for civilised people': isolation, enforced education and resistance among Spanish Gypsies / Paloma Gay y Blasco
  • Epilogue / Carolyn Strange.

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