Melling / Forsythe The Politics of Madness

The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-1-134-41710-0
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history.

Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national material. Within a social and cultural history of the English political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum system in 1845.

Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting place for different social interests and aspirations, the text asserts that this then marked a transition in provincial power relations from the landed interests to the new coalition of professional, commercial and populist groups, which gained control of the public asylums at the end of the period surveyed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Melling, Joseph

Forsythe, Bill

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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