Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe

The Politics of Madness (eBook, PDF)

The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, this text presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134417100
• Artikelnr.: 43071541

Autorenporträt

Joseph Melling (University of Exeter, UK) (Author) , Bill Forsythe (University of Exeter, UK) (Author)

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: The English Asylum and its Historians 2 The Origins of the Asylum 3 The Asylum and the British State in the administration of pauper lunacy
1845-1914 4 The Ethos of Treatment
Care and Management at the Asylum
1845-1914 5 Journey to the Asylum: Residence
distance and migration in admissions to the Asylum
1845-1914 6 Community
Friends and Family: Asylum
Lunatics and the social environment
1845-1914 7 Reading the Rules of Domesticity: Gender
insanity and the asylum
1845-1914 8 Madness and the Market: Occupations
class and the asylum
1845-1914 9 The Patient Experience of the Pauper and Private Asylum 10 From Asylum Inmate to Outpatient: The remaking of the institutional landscape in the Twentieth Century
1914-1990