Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe
| Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.2/1/094109034 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MellingJoseph
ForsytheBill |
| Collana | Studies in the social history of medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Psychiatric hospital care - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Social psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century Mental health laws - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-06007-7
9786610060078 0-203-02578-4 0-203-17068-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5 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 9 '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 13 '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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455485703321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe
| Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 [[electronic resource] ] : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.2/1/094109034 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MellingJoseph
ForsytheBill |
| Collana | Studies in the social history of medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Psychiatric hospital care - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Social psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century Mental health laws - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
1-134-66874-0
1-280-06007-7 9786610060078 0-203-02578-4 0-203-17068-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5 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 9 '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 13 '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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779939403321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe
| Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (335 p.) |
| Disciplina | 362.2/1/094109034 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
MellingJoseph
ForsytheBill |
| Collana | Studies in the social history of medicine |
| Soggetto topico |
Psychiatric hospital care - Great Britain - History - 19th century
Social psychiatry - Great Britain - History - 19th century Mental health laws - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
| ISBN |
1-134-66874-0
1-280-06007-7 9786610060078 0-203-02578-4 0-203-17068-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; 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
5 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 9 '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 13 '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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910961949303321 |
| London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1999 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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