Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index.

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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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.

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