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 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Notes on Contributors
- Tables and Figures
- 1. Community care and its antecedents
- 2. 'Not simple boarding': care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century
- 3. At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century
- 4. Family, community and the lunatic in mid-nineteenth-century North Wales
- 5. Boarding-out insane patients: the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913
- 6. Enclosing and disclosing lunatics within the family walls: domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England
- 7. Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland
- 8. Families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England: Assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914
- 9. Community care and mental deficiency 1913 to 1945
- 10. Rhetoric and reality: community care in England and Wales, 1948-74
- 11. Mental Health Policy, Care in the Community and Political Conflict: the Case of the Integrated Service in Northern Ireland
- 12. Outside the Walls of the Asylum? Psychiatric Treatment in the 1980s and 1990s
- Notes
- Index