Outside the walls of the asylum : the history of care in the community, 1750-2000 /
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Imprint: | London ; New Brunswick, NJ : Athlone Press ; Somerset, N.J. : Distributed by Transaction Publishers, 1999. |
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Description: | xiii, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History. Mental health policy -- Great Britain -- History. Psychiatric hospital care -- Ireland -- History. Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History. Mental health policy -- Ireland -- History. Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history -- Great Britain. Mental health policy. Psychiatric hospital care. Psychiatric hospitals. Great Britain. Ireland. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3958804 |
Summary: | This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners. |
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Physical Description: | xiii, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-328) and index. |
ISBN: | 0485115417 (hbk.) 0485121476 (pbk.) |