Title Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective / edited by Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe

Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in the social history of medicine Studies in the social history of medicine. Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions JOSEPH MELLING; The English experience of the county lunatic asylum; The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808 1845 LEONARD D. SMITH; The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance PETER BARTLETT; Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1845 1914 BILL FORSYTHE, JOSEPH MELLING AND RICHARD ADAIR Summary A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Social psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Mental health laws -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history 44.16 mental health service. Mental health laws Psychiatric hospital care Social psychiatry Psychiatrische inrichtingen. Psychische stoornissen. SUBJECT United Kingdom Subject Great Britain Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Melling, Joseph Forsythe, Bill LC no. 98041827 ISBN 0203025784 9780203025789 1280060077 9781280060076 9786610060078 661006007X 0203170687 9780203170687

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