Mental health care in modern England
Subtitle: the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum/St. Andrew's Hospital c. 1810-1998
By: Steven Cherry.
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England) -- History.; St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England) -- History.; Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- Norfolk -- History -- 19th century.; Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- Norfolk -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-328) and index.
Table of contents: title: Asylums, insanity and locality; title: Norfolk Lunatic Asylum : plans, problems and patients, 1814-43; title: A superintendent and 'work therapy', 1843-61; title: A medical superintendent, expansion and reform, 1861-87; title: 'Successful conversion' : a managed community, 1887-1915; title: Two histories : the Norfolk War Hospital, 1915-19; title: St. Andrew's Hospital, innovation and constraints, 1920-39; title: Wartime and post-war crises, 1939-48; title: 'Modern treatment carried out under difficulty', 1948-1964; title: Community care and the end of a community, 1964-1998.