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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
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Medicine and society ; 13
Medicine and society ; 13.
Contents Commission of lunacy: background, sources, and contents -- The structure of the psychiatric bedside -- 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
Summary This provocatively argued study, paints a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggesting that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself
Analysis asylum
caregiver
commission of lunacy
disability
english madness
family
history of madness
history of medicine
home health care
insanity
lunacy
madman
madness
madwoman
medical specialty
mental disability
mental health
mental hospital
mental illness
nonfiction
psychiatric institutions
psychiatric profession
psychiatry
psychology
social history
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History -- 19th century
Mentally ill -- Home care -- England -- History -- 19th century
Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- England -- History -- 19th century
Mental health laws -- England -- History -- 19th century
Psychiatry -- England -- History -- 19th century
Psychiatry -- history
History, 19th Century
Mental Disorders -- history
MEDICAL -- Psychiatry -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychopathology -- General.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Clinical Psychology.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Mental health laws
Mentally ill -- Care
Mentally ill -- Family relationships
Mentally ill -- Home care
Psychiatry
SUBJECT England
Subject England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520932210
0520932218
1423745485
9781423745488
1598759310
9781598759310
9780520245808
0520245806
1282358839
9781282358836
9786612358838
6612358831
Other Titles Psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860