LEADER 04433nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910961949303321 005 20251116143205.0 010 $a1-134-66874-0 010 $a1-280-06007-7 010 $a9786610060078 010 $a0-203-02578-4 010 $a0-203-17068-7 035 $a(CKB)111056485535786 035 $a(EBL)178160 035 $a(OCoLC)70763533 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000179687 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11165271 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000179687 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10138748 035 $a(PQKB)11658429 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC178160 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL178160 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10017154 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL6007 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485535786 100 $a19980825d1999 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aInsanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 $ea social history of madness in comparative perspective /$fedited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon ;$aNew York $cRoutledge$d1999 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in the social history of medicine 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a1-138-86824-8 311 08$a0-415-18441-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 316-318) and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $a5 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 327 $a9 '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 327 $a13 '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 330 $aThis comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care. 410 0$aStudies in the social history of medicine. 606 $aPsychiatric hospital care$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aSocial psychiatry$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMental health laws$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aPsychiatric hospital care$xHistory 615 0$aSocial psychiatry$xHistory 615 0$aMental health laws$xHistory 676 $a362.2/1/094109034 701 $aMelling$b Joseph$01842759 701 $aForsythe$b Bill$01882905 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910961949303321 996 $aInsanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914$94498552 997 $aUNINA