| Description |
1 online resource (361 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series |
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Routledge Studies in Modern European History Series
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Topic and period of investigation -- Object of inquiry -- Methodology, complexes of theory and research, and the book's structure -- Operationalizing comparison -- Complexes of theory and research: state and psychiatry -- Complexes of theory and research: danger and security -- Complexes of theory and research: disease and diagnosis -- Complexes of theory and research: work and performance -- Sources |
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Source materials and their evaluation: a qualitative study with quantitative underpinnings -- A social history of medicine that takes account of Science Studies: journals and textbooks as complementary sources for interpreting medical records -- Notes -- 1. Historical parameters of committal practice: Psychiatry, state, and society to 1941 -- Types of asylums and clinics -- The role of psychiatric institutions -- Physician and patient: cure, recovery, and quartering -- Security, the justice system, and the police -- Psychiatry as supplier of knowledge applied by the state |
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Psychiatrists as providers of expert evaluations -- Psychiatric knowledge as war-related knowledge -- Psychiatric knowledge as a foil for the interpretation of social problems -- Changes during the Nazi era up to 1941 and the incipient murder of the sick -- Notes -- 2. The state and psychiatric institutions: Parameters and committal decisions -- The murder of the sick and shortages: the practice of committal during World War II -- Patients and physicians in cases of committal -- Independent physicians (niedergelassene Ärzte) and committal decisions -- Initiation of committals by relatives |
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Committal practices in a ""society in a state of collapse"" (Zusammenbruchgesellschaft), 1945-1949 -- New pathways and lack of places: the practice of committal in the GDR -- Underfunding and lack of places -- Changes in committal pathways associated with the role of polyclinics and specialist boards (Fachärztegremien) -- Summary: state and psychiatric institutions in the GDR -- The contested role of psychiatric institutions and controversial committal practices in West Germany -- Who belongs in an asylum? Debates on costs and the relationship between security and illness |
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Patients between doctors, relatives, and overcrowded clinics -- Between voluntariness and coercion, assistance and long-term residential placement: committals from the perspective of patients in the Nazi era, the GDR, and the FRG -- Summary: framework conditions, actors, and the role of the asylum in comparative perspective -- Notes -- 3. Danger and security: On the practice of compulsory committal -- A threat to public safety""? Compulsory committals during World War II -- Soldier committals at the front and ""home front |
| Summary |
The book probes how the serious and sometimes fatal decision was made to admit individuals to asylums during Germany's age of extremes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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The elderly as a threat: the radicalization of committal practices by institutions and the social milieu |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospitals-Admission and discharge-Germany-History-20th century
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Psychiatric hospital patients-Germany-Social conditions-20th century
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Mentally ill-Commitment and detention-Germany-History-20th century
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Involuntary treatment-Germany-History-20th century
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Psychiatry-Social aspects-Germany-History-20th century
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781003857563 |
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1003857566 |
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