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Author:

Suzuki, Akihito, 1963-

Title:

Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / Akihito Suzuki.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

c2006

Description:

xii, 259 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mentally ill--History--England--History--19th century.
Mentally ill--History--England--History--19th century.
Mentally ill--England--History--History--19th century.
Mental health laws--England--History--19th century.
Psychiatry--England--History--19th century.
England.
Psychiatry--History.
History, 19th Century.
Mental Disorders--history.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index.

Contents:

Commissions of lunacy: background, sources, and content -- The structure of psychiatric practice -- The problems of liberty and property -- Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere -- Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime -- Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.

Series:

Medicine and society; 13

ISBN:

9780520245808
9780520245808 (cloth : alk. paper)
0520245806 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)59148450

LCCN:

2005010547

Locations:

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)