The trade in lunacy
Subtitle: a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
By: [by] William Ll. Parry-Jones.
Series: Studies in social history
Publisher: Routledge and K. Paul
Published: 1972
Place of publication: London, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
Copyright date: 1972
Subjects: Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain; Mentally ill -- Care -- Great Britain
Notes: Bibliography: p. 331-345.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: xv; title: Abbreviations
pagenum: xvii; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 2
title: The 'Trade in Lunacy' in its Historical and Legal Perspective
pagenum: 6; label: Chapter 3
title: The Madhouse System: The Range and Development of its Provisions
pagenum: 29; label: Chapter 4
title: The Private Madhouse Proprietor
pagenum: 74; label: Chapter 5
title: Some Contemporary Descriptions of Nineteenth-Century Private Licensed Houses
pagenum: 96; label: Chapter 6
title: The Private Licensed Houses at Hook Norton and Witney
pagenum: 128; label: Chapter 7
title: Aspects of the Care of the Insane in Private Madhouses and the Outcome of Treatment
pagenum: 168; label: Chapter 8
title: The Principal Abuses and Defects of the Private-Madhouse System: A Review of the Evidence
pagenum: 221; label: Chapter 9
title: Summary and Conclusion
pagenum: 281; label: Appendix
title: 293; label: Bibliography
pagenum: 331; label: Index of Private Madhouses
pagenum: 347; label: General Index
pagenum: 352