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Author Shepherd, Anna, author

Title Institutionalizing the insane in nineteenth-century England / by Anna Shepherd
Published London : Pickering & Chatto, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; 20
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; 20.
Contents Introduction : contexts of insanity -- Caring for Surrey's insane : Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium -- Therapeutic agents : doctors and attendants -- Origins and journeys : the patients at Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium -- 'Hurry, worry, annoyance and needless trouble' : patients in residence -- The taxonomy and treatment of insanity -- Suicide, self-harm and madness in the asylum
Summary The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies
Psychiatric hospitals.
Medicine -- History.
Mental Disorders -- history
Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history
Mentally Ill Persons -- history
Hospitals, Psychiatric
History of Medicine
psychiatric hospitals.
history of medicine.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Psychiatric hospitals
Medicine
Psychiatric hospital care
Psychiatrische Klinik
England
Surrey
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
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