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Author:

Melling, Joseph.

Title:

The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

Publisher:

Routledge,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

xvii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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
History, 19th Century--England.
History, 20th Century--England.
Mental disorders--History--England.
Mentally Ill Persons--history--England.

Other Authors:

Forsythe, Bill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-270) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : the English asylum and its historians -- The origins of the asylum -- The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914 -- The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914 -- Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum -- From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990.

Series:

Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 20

ISBN:

9780203335345
9780415301749
9780203335345 (ebk)
0203335341 (ebk)
9780415301749 (hbk.)
0415301742 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56759682

LCCN:

2005018894

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)