The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 / edited by Roy Porter and David Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Porter, Roy, 1946-2002, editor.

Wright, David, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychiatric hospitals--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatric hospitals--History--20th century.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--History--19th century.

Mentally ill.

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in the history of medicine. Academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed 'insane', exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation. Originally published in 2003, this edited volume brings together thirteen original research papers to answer key questions in the history of asylums. What forces led to the emergence of mental hospitals in different national contexts? To what extent did patient populations vary in terms of their psychiatric profile and socio-economic background? What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context.

Contents:

Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon

The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Geneviève Heller

Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 / Patricia E. Prestwich

The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada : the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-1891 / David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas

Passage to the asylum : the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 / Catharine Coleborne

The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea Dörries and Thomas Beddies

Curative asylum, custodial hospital : the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828-1920 / Peter McCandless

The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900-1945 / Akihito Suzuki

The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890-1946 / Jonathan D. Ablard

Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico : mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-1930 / Cristina Rivera-Garza

Psychiatry and confinement in India / Sanjeev Jain

Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky

'Ireland's crowded madhouses' : the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Malcolm

The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 / Elaine Murphy.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-13059-X

1-280-16050-0

9786610160501

0-511-20542-2

0-511-11941-0

0-511-06343-1

0-511-32651-3

0-511-49761-X

0-511-07189-2

OCLC:

57182228