Outside the walls of the asylum : the history of care in the community 1750-2000 / / edited by Peter Bartlett & David Wright

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910826671903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New Brunswick, N.J., : Athlone Press, 1999
• ISBN: 1-283-20099-6; 9786613200990; 0-567-59850-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Studies in Psychical Research
• Altri autori (Persone): BartlettPeter; WrightDavid <1965->
• Disciplina: 362.2/1/0941
• Soggetti: Psychiatric hospital care - Great Britain - History; Psychiatric hospitals - Great Britain - History; Mental health policy - Great Britain - History; Psychiatric hospital care - Ireland - History; Psychiatric hospitals - Ireland - History; Mental health policy - Ireland - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Preface; Notes on Contributors; Tables and Figures; 1 Community care and its antecedents; 2 'Not simple boarding': care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century; 3 At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century; 4 Family, community and the lunatic in mid-nineteenth-century North Wales; 5 Boarding-out insane patients: the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913; 6 Enclosing and disclosing lunatics within the family walls: domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England7 Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland; 8 Families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England: Assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914; 9 Community care and mental deficiency 1913 to 1945; 10 Rhetoric and reality: community care in ; England and Wales, 1948-74; 11 Mental Health Policy, Care in the Community and Political Conflict: the Case of the Integrated Service in Northern Ireland 12 Outside the Walls of the Asylum? Psychiatric Treatment in the 1980's and 1990's; Notes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners.