Asylums and after
Subtitle: a revised history of the mental health services : from the early 18th century to the 1990s
By: Kathleen Jones.
Publisher: Athlone Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London; Atlantic Highlands, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Mental health services -- England -- History
Description: This work is a completely revised and largely rewritten version of Professor Jones' classic History of the Mental Health Services. This new History takes full account of modern historical critiques of the subject, including the revisionism of Goffman, Foucault and Szasz, medical and legal analyses, and revaluation by a variety of scholars in the light of such late twentieth century perspectives as neo-Marxism, Thatcherism, feminism, normalization and empowerment.

The Mental Health Services have altered beyond recognition in recent years. Many mental hospitals have literally bitten the dust - reduced to piles of rubble as their sites have been sold off for housing estates or leisure centres. Is this cost-efficient development, or asset-stripping? Does community care work? And what has happened to the patients?

For its history both of events and of ideas, this book is likely to become the standard account of the subject, and is highly suitable for course adoption.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-297) and index.