The politics of madness
Subtitle: the state, insanity, and society in England, 1845-1914
By: Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.
Contributors: Forsythe, Bill.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: Mental illness -- England -- History -- 19th century; Mental illness -- England -- History -- 20th century; Insanity -- England -- History -- 19th century; Insanity -- England -- History -- 20th century; Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History -- 20th century; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- England; Mental Disorders -- history -- England; Mentally Ill Persons -- history -- England; History, 19th Century -- England; History, 20th Century -- England
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The English asylum and its historians; title: The origins of the asylum; title: The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914; title: The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914; title: Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914; title: Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914; title: Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914; title: Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914; title: The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum; title: From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990.