Madhouses, mad-doctors, and madmen
Subtitle: the social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era
By: Andrew Scull, editor.
Contributors: Scull, Andrew T.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Philadelphia, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Social psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatry -- History; History of medicine, 19th century; Great Britain -- History -- Victoria, 1837-1901
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The social history of psychiatry in the Victorian era / Andrew Scull; title: Rationales for therapy in British psychiatry, 1780-1835 / William F. Bynum, Jr.; title: Phrenology and British alienists, ca. 1825-1845 / Roger Cooter; title: Moral treatment reconsidered, some sociological comments on an episode in the history of British psychiatry / Andrew Scull; title: A generous confidence, Thomas Story Kirkbride's philosophy of asylum construction and management / Nancy J. Tomes; title: The discovery of the asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the new American Republic / Andrew Scull; title: The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: the case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870 / John Walton; title: The model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and its influence on the nineteenth-century asylum system in Britain / William Ll. Parry-Jones; title: The paradox of prudence: mental health in the gilded age / Barbara Sicherman; title: "A hollow square of psychological science": American neurologists and psychiatrists in conflict / Bonnie Ellen Blustein; title: The rejection of psychological approaches to mental disorder in late nineteenth-century British psychiatry / Michael J.Clark; title: Victorian women and insanity / Elaine Showalter; title: Liberty and lunacy: the Victorians and wrongful confinement / Peter McCandless; title: The boundary between insanity and criminal responsibility in nineteenth-century England / Roger Smith.