Isolation
Subtitle: places and practices of exclusion
By: edited by Carolyn Strange and Alison Bashford.
Contributors: Strange, Carolyn, 1959-; Bashford, Alison, 1963-
Series: Routledge studies in modern history ;; 1
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Social isolation -- History.; Segregation -- History.; Imprisonment -- History.; Exile (Punishment) -- History.; Insane -- Commitment and detention -- History.; Isolation (Hospital care) -- History.; Institutional care -- History.
Description: "This book examines legally sanctioned strategies of exclusion and segregation undertaken over the last two centuries across a range of national and colonial contexts. In addition to offering new perspectives on the continuum of medico-penal sites of isolation, from the asylum to the penitentiary, contributors examine less well-known sites, from 'leper villages' to refugee camps to Native reserves."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.