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

Author/creator Melling, Joseph
Other author Forsythe, Bill.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Routledge,
Descriptionxvii, 278 p. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects
Mental illness--England. --History. --19th century.
Mental illness--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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [213]-270) and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2005018894
ISBN9780415301749 (hbk.)
ISBN0415301742 (hbk.)
ISBN9780203335345 (ebk.)
ISBN0203335341 (ebk.)