LEADER 04187nam 22006255 450 001 9910484084103321 005 20220228193457.0 010 $a3-030-44432-5 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-44432-7 035 $a(CKB)4100000011263626 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6207049 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-44432-7 035 $a(PPN)253678633 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011263626 100 $a20200520d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLondon and its Asylums, 1888-1914 $ePolitics and Madness /$fby Robert Ellis 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (304 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aMental Health in Historical Perspective,$x2634-6036 311 $a3-030-44431-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: ?The Mere Scope of it is Immense?. London and its Asylums in Context -- Chapter 2: The Politics of Administration -- Chapter 3: The Politics of Finance -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Innovation -- Chapter 5: The Politics of Architecture -- Chapter 6: The Politics of Difference -- Chapter 7: Conclusions. 330 $a'This is an important and timely contribution to the politics of mental health. Ellis?s forensic dissection of the politics and finance of asylums in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century London demonstrates the evolution of asylum and mental health care but also provides a nuanced account of local government and welfare activism in this period. This book is highly recommended for those interested not only in the history of mental health care, but also the sometimes internecine conflicts which underpinned urban government in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.' ?Professor Heather Shore, Director of MCPHH, Department of History, Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issues that were facing the capital and the nation. The chapters that follow place London at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, it shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities. 410 0$aMental Health in Historical Perspective,$x2634-6036 606 $aSocial history 606 $aCities and towns$xHistory 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 606 $aSocial History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/724000 606 $aUrban History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/727000 606 $aHistory of Medicine$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/H64000 606 $aHistory of Britain and Ireland$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/717020 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory 615 0$aSocial history. 615 0$aCities and towns$xHistory. 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 14$aSocial History. 615 24$aUrban History. 615 24$aHistory of Medicine. 615 24$aHistory of Britain and Ireland. 676 $a362.21094212 676 $a362.20942109034 700 $aEllis$b Robert$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$046557 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484084103321 996 $aLondon and its Asylums, 1888-1914$91965622 997 $aUNINA