Madness at home
Subtitle: the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860
By: Akihito Suzuki.
Series: Medicine and society ;; 13
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Mentally ill -- Home care -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Mentally ill -- England -- Family relationships -- History -- 19th century.; Mental health laws -- England -- History -- 19th century.; Psychiatry -- England -- History -- 19th century.; England.; Psychiatry -- history.; History of Medicine, 19th Cent.; Mental Disorders -- history.
Other titles: Psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Commission of lunacy: background, sources, and contents; title: The structure of the psychiatric bedside; title: The problems of liberty and property; title: Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere; title: Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime; title: Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.