Mental illness and learning disability since 1850
Subtitle: finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom / [edited by] Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling.
Contributors: Dale, Pamela, 1975-; Melling, Joseph.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Mental illness -- Great Britain -- History; Learning disabled -- Great Britain -- History; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history -- Great Britain; Institutionalization -- history -- Great Britain; Mentally Ill Persons -- history -- Great Britain; Mentally Disabled Persons -- history -- Great Britain; Public Policy -- Great Britain; History, 19th Century -- Great Britain; History, 20th Century -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: The politics of mental welfare: fresh perspectives on the history of institutionalized care for the mentally ill and disabled / Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling; title: Workhouse care of the insane 1845-1890 / Elaine Murphy; title: Needs and desires in the care of paper lunatics: admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872 / Frank Crompton; title: 'Buried alive by her friends:' asylum narratives and the English governess, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling; title: Separatism and exclusion: women in psychiatry, 1900-1950 / Louise Westwood; title: Family, gender and class in psychiatric patient care during the 1930s: the Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital / David Pearce; title: The 'manufacture' of mental defectives increased in Scotland (1857-1939) / Matt Egan; title: Tension in the voluntary-statutory alliance: 'lay professionals' and the planning and delivery of mental deficiency services, 1917-1945 / Pamela Dale; title: 'A satisfactory job is the best psychiatrist:' employment and mental health 1939-60 / Vicky Long; title: Inside the walls of the hostel 1930-1974 / John Welshman; title: Landmarks in the care of the mentally disordered.