Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

ISBN-13: 9780415184410 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 352 str.

Bill Forsythe; Joseph Melling

Opis

This guide to work in the social and cultural history of insanity, provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the 19th and 20th centuries. Looking at the English model in terms of the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as political and cultural factors, the book also features studies in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, India and South Africa, and analyses the history of colonial medicine more generally.

Recenzje

'The editors and contributors to Insanity, Institutions and Society deserve our thanks for significantly expanding our understanding of the rise of the asylum in nineteenth-century Britain.' - Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers University

'This excellent collection focuses on the early English county asylum system; shifts in therapeutic regimes; the reform of administrative structures in Wales, Scotland and Ireland; and contemporaneous developments in South Africa and the Raj' - Bill Luckin, Economic History Review

Spis treści

Len Smith, Birmingham; Peter Bartlett, Nottingham University; Pamela Michael and David Hirst, both at University of Wales, Bangor; David Wright, Nottingham University; Waltraud Ernst, Southampton University; Andrew Scull, University of California; Bill Forsythe, Richard Adair and Jo Melling all at Exeter University; Shula Marks, SOAS, University of London; Oonagh Wa;sh, University of Aberdeen; Lorraine Walsh; Jonathan Andrews, Oxford Brookes University; Akihito Suzuki, University of Tokyo; Hilary Marland, University of Warwick.

O autorze

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914