The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Melling, Joseph.

Contributor:

Forsythe, Bill.

Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 20.

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mental illness--England--History--19th century.

Mental illness.

Mental illness--England--History--20th century.

Insanity (Law)--England--History--19th century.

Insanity (Law).

Insanity (Law)--England--History--20th century.

Psychiatric hospital care--England--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospital care.

Psychiatric hospital care--England--History--20th century.

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

History.

England.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Mental Disorders--history.

Persons with Psychiatric Disorders--history.

Medical Subjects:

Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.

England.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Mental Disorders--history.

Persons with Psychiatric Disorders--history.

Physical Description:

xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

Contents:

Introduction : the English asylum and its historians

The origins of the asylum

The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914

The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914

Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914

Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914

Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914

Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914

The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum

From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [262]-270) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0415301742

0203335341

OCLC:

56759682

Publisher Number:

9780415301749

9780203335345