Title Outside the walls of the asylum : the history of care in the community 1750-2000 / edited by Peter Bartlett and David Wright

Published London : Athlone Press, 1999

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Description 337 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents 1. Community care and its antecedents / Peter Bartlett and David Wright -- 2. 'Not simple boarding': care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century / R. A. Houston -- 3. At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century / Hilary Marland -- 4. Family, community and the lunatic in mid-nineteenth-century North Wales / David Hirst and Pamela Michael -- 5. Boarding-out insane patients: the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913 / Harriet Sturdy and William Parry-Jones -- 6. Enclosing and disclosing lunatics within the family walls: domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England / Akihito Suzuki -- 7. Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland / Oonagh Walsh 8. Families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England: Assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe and Richard Adair -- 9. Community care and mental deficiency 1913 to 1945 / Jan Walmsley, Dorothy Atkinson and Sheena Rolph -- 10. Rhetoric and reality: community care in England and Wales, 1948-74 / John Welshman -- 11. Mental Health Policy, Care in the Community and Political Conflict: the Case of the Integrated Service in Northern Ireland / Jim Campbell -- 12. Outside the Walls of the Asylum? Psychiatric Treatment in the 1980s and 1990s / Sarah Payne Summary "This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal institutions explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construction of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of 'mental healing' by general practitioners. Challenging conventional interpretations of the centrality of psychiatric institutions, the book is an important critical voice in the reappraisal of 'care in the community' and to the historical understanding of the role of medicine in the treatment of mental health problems."--BOOK JACKET Analysis asylum madness Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Subject Community mental health services -- Great Britain -- History. Mental health policy -- Great Britain -- History. Mental health policy -- Ireland -- History. Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History. Mentally ill -- Care -- Great Britain -- History. Psychiatric hospital care -- Ireland -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History. Mental Health Services -- history. Health Policy -- history. Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history. SUBJECT United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 Ireland. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007494 United Kingdom. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 Ireland. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007494 Author Bartlett, Peter. Wright, David, 1965- LC no. 98054264 ISBN 0485115417 (cased) 0485121476 (paperback)

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