The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 /
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Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : illustrations |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 20th century. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- History -- 19th century. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- 20th century. History, 20th Century. Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history. Cross-Cultural Comparison. History, 19th Century. Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. MEDICAL -- Mental Health. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention. Psychiatric hospitals. Electronic books. History. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131174 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Insanity, institutions and society: the case of Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846âÇô1910
- 2. The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900âÇô70: Cery and Bel-Air asylums
- 3. Family strategies and medical power: 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876âÇô1914
- 4. The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada: the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861âÇô91
- 5. Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848âÇô1900
- 6. The 'Wittenauer HeilstÃñtten' in Berlin: a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919âÇô60
- 7. Curative asylum, custodial hospital: the South Carolina lunatic asylum and state hospital, 1828âÇô1920
- 8. The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900âÇô45
- 9. The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890âÇô1946
- 10. Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico: mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910âÇô30
- 11. Psychiatry and confinement in India
- 12. Confinements and colonialism in Nigeria
- 13. 'Ireland's crowded madhouses': the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland
- 14. The administration of insanity in England, 1800âÇô70