The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Porter, Roy, 1946-2002.
Wright, David, 1965-
ISBN:0511063431
9780511063435
0511071892
9780511071898
9780511497612
051149761X
9780521802062
0521802067
1280160500
9781280160509
9786610160501
6610160503
0511205422
9780511205422
0511119410
9780511119415
0511326513
9780511326516
9780521283342
0521283345
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of those deemed insane, in different national contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is therefore the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.
Other form:Print version: Confinement of the insane. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521802067
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