Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Melling, Joseph.

Forsythe, Bill.

Series:

Studies in the social history of medicine.

Studies in the social history of medicine

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospital care--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospital care.

Social psychiatry--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Social psychiatry.

Mental health laws--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Mental health laws.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.

Contents:

Cover; INSANITY, INSTITUTIONS ANDSOCIETY, 1800-1914; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; 1 Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions; PART I The English experience of the county lunatic asylum; 2 The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808-1845; 3 The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance; 4 Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914

5 The discharge of pauper lunatics from county asylums in mid-Victorian England: the case of Buckinghamshire, 1853-1872PART II Therapeutic regimes in the nineteenth century; 6 Framing psychiatric subjectivity: doctor, patient and record-keeping at Bethlem in the nineteenth century; 7 'Destined to a perfect recovery': the confinement of puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century; PART III On the edge: the English model and national peripheries; 8 Establishing the 'rule of kindness': the foundation of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh

9 'The property of the whole community'. Charity and insanity in urban Scotland: the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum, 1805-185010 Raising the tone of asylumdom: maintaining and expelling pauper lunatics at the Glasgow Royal Asylum in the nineteenth century; 11 'The designs of providence': race, religion and Irish insanity; PART IV The colonial vision; 12 Out of sight and out of mind: insanity in early-nineteenth-century British India

13 'Every facility that modern science and enlightened humanity have devised': race and progress in a colonial hospital, Valkenberg Mental Asylum, Cape Colony, 1894-1910PART V Reflections; 14 Rethinking the history of asylumdom; Select bibliography of the history of insanity; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

1-134-66874-0

1-280-06007-7

9786610060078

0-203-02578-4

0-203-17068-7

9780203025789

OCLC:

70763533