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The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914
- Title
- The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.
- Author
- Melling, Joseph.
- Publication
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Forsythe, Bill.
- Description
- xvii, 278 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 20
- Subject
- Mental illness > England > History > 19th century
- Mental illness > England > History > 20th century
- Insanity (Law) > England > History > 19th century
- Insanity (Law) > England > History > 20th century
- Psychiatric hospital care > England > History > 19th century
- Psychiatric hospital care > England > History > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-270) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : the English asylum and its historians -- The origins of the asylum -- The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914 -- The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914 -- Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum -- From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-6109
- ISBN
- 0415301742 (hbk.)
- 0203335341 (ebk)
- LCCN
- 2005018894
- 9780415301749
- 9780203335345
- OCLC
- 56759682
- Author
- Melling, Joseph.
- Title
- The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.
- Imprint
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
- Series
- Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 20
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-270) and index.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Forsythe, Bill.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 97804153017499780203335345
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-6109