Mental health care in modern England : the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum/St. Andrew's Hospital c. 1810-1998 /

The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution and in 1998 St Andrew's featured among the last of the large psychiatric hospital closures. This history of one particular place for 'madness' covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Cherry, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England) > History.
St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England) > History.
Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England)
St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England)
1800 - 1999
Psychiatric hospitals > Great Britain > Norfolk > History > 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals > Great Britain > Norfolk > History > 20th century.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness.
MEDICAL > Mental Health.
Psychiatric hospitals
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Asylums, insanity and locality
  • Norfolk Lunatic Asylum : plans, problems and patients, 1814-43
  • A superintendent and 'work therapy', 1843-61
  • A medical superintendent, expansion and reform, 1861-87
  • 'Successful conversion' : a managed community, 1887-1915
  • Two histories : the Norfolk War Hospital, 1915-19
  • St. Andrew's Hospital, innovation and constraints, 1920-39
  • Wartime and post-war crises, 1939-48
  • 'Modern treatment carried out under difficulty', 1948-1964
  • Community care and the end of a community, 1964-1998.

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