Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 /
Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 /
edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations
- Studies in the social history of medicine .
- Studies in the social history of medicine. .
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.
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.
0203170687 (electronic bk.) 9780203170687 (electronic bk.) 9780415184410 041518441X (cloth) 9780203025789 (e-book : PDF) 0203025784 9781134668755 (e-book: PDF) 1134668759 9781134668700 (e-book: Mobi) 1134668708 9781134668748 (e-book: ePub) 1134668740 9781138868243 (paperback) 1138868248
98041827
1800-1899
Psychiatric hospital care--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Social psychiatry--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health laws--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history
Hôpitaux psychiatriques--Soins--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Psychiatrie sociale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY--Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY--Mental Illness.
MEDICAL--Mental Health.
Mental health laws.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Social psychiatry.
United Kingdom
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RC450.G7 / I57 1999eb
362.2/1/094109034
WM 27 FA1 / I59 1999
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.
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.
0203170687 (electronic bk.) 9780203170687 (electronic bk.) 9780415184410 041518441X (cloth) 9780203025789 (e-book : PDF) 0203025784 9781134668755 (e-book: PDF) 1134668759 9781134668700 (e-book: Mobi) 1134668708 9781134668748 (e-book: ePub) 1134668740 9781138868243 (paperback) 1138868248
98041827
1800-1899
Psychiatric hospital care--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Social psychiatry--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health laws--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history
Hôpitaux psychiatriques--Soins--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
Psychiatrie sociale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e siècle.
PSYCHOLOGY--Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY--Mental Illness.
MEDICAL--Mental Health.
Mental health laws.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Social psychiatry.
United Kingdom
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
RC450.G7 / I57 1999eb
362.2/1/094109034
WM 27 FA1 / I59 1999