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

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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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Melling, Joseph, Forsythe, Bill
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Series:Studies in the social history of medicine.
Subjects:
Psychiatric hospital care > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Social psychiatry > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health laws > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Mental health laws.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Social psychiatry.
Great Britain.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions JOSEPH MELLING; The English experience of the county lunatic asylum; The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808 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.

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