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Madness at home [[electronic resource] ] : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / / Akihito Suzuki



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Autore: Suzuki Akihito <1963-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Madness at home [[electronic resource] ] : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / / Akihito Suzuki Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina: 616.89/00942/09034
Soggetto topico: Mentally ill - Care - England - History - 19th century
Mentally ill - Home care - England - History - 19th century
Mentally ill - England - Family relationships - History - 19th century
Mental health laws - England - History - 19th century
Psychiatry - England - History - 19th century
Soggetto non controllato: asylum
caregiver
commission of lunacy
disability
english madness
family
history of madness
history of medicine
home health care
insanity
lunacy
madman
madness
madwoman
medical specialty
mental disability
mental health
mental hospital
mental illness
nonfiction
psychiatric institutions
psychiatric profession
psychiatry
psychology
social history
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Psychiatry in the Private and the Public Spheres -- 1. Commissions of Lunacy: Background, Sources, and Content -- 2. The Structure of Psychiatric Practice -- 3. The Problems of Liberty and Property -- 4. Managing Lunatics within the Domestic Sphere -- 5. Destabilizing the Domestic Psychiatric Regime -- 6. Public Authorities and the Ambiguities of the Lunatic at Home -- Conclusion -- Appendix: List of the Reports of Commissions of Lunacy in the London 'Times,' 1823-1861 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: The history of psychiatric institutions and the psychiatric profession is by now familiar: asylums multiplied in nineteenth-century England and psychiatry established itself as a medical specialty around the same time. We are, however, largely ignorant about madness at home in this key period: what were the family's attitudes toward its insane member, what were patient's lives like when they remained at home? Until now, most accounts have suggested that the family and community gradually abdicated responsibility for taking care of mentally ill members to the doctors who ran the asylums. However, this provocatively argued study, painting a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggests that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself. Akihito Suzuki's richly detailed social history includes several fascinating case histories, looks closely at little studied source material including press reports of formal legal declarations of insanity, or Commissions of Lunacy, and also provides an illuminating historical perspective on our own day and age, when the mentally ill are mainly treated in home and community.
Altri titoli varianti: Psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860
Titolo autorizzato: Madness at home  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-35883-9
9786612358838
0-520-93221-8
1-59875-931-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910783670003321
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Serie: Medicine and society ; ; 13.