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Title:

The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 / edited by Roy Porter and David Wright.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2003

Description:

xvii, 371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Psychiatric hospitals--History--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--20th century.
Insane--History--History--19th century.
Insane--Commitment and detention--20th century.

Other Authors:

Porter, Roy, 1946-
Wright, David, 1965-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon -- The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Geneviève Heller -- Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 / Patricia E. Prestwich -- The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada : the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-1891 / David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas -- Passage to the asylum : the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 / Catharine Coleborne -- The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea Dörries and Thomas Beddies -- Curative asylum, custodial hospital : the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828-1920 / Peter McCandless -- The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900-1945 / Akihito Suzuki -- The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890-1946 / Jonathan D. Ablard -- Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico : mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-1930 / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- Psychiatry and confinement in India / Sanjeev Jain -- Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky -- 'Ireland's crowded madhouses' : the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Malcolm -- The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 / Elaine Murphy.

ISBN:

9780521802062
0521802067

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50476633

LCCN:

2002031403

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)