Lunatic hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 /
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| Author / Creator: | Smith, Leonard D., 1947- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, c2007. |
| Description: | xvi, 288 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge studies in the social history of medicine ; 28 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7142722 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- St Luke's Hospital for Lunaticks
- The Institutional Context
- The Voluntary Hospitals - A Model for Emulation
- Foundations
- From Moorfields to Old Street
- The Provincial Lunatic Hospitals
- Rationales
- The Northern Cities
- The Midlands and the West
- Conclusions
- Management and Staffing
- Constitution and Control
- Medical Management
- Non-Medical Management
- The 'Servants'
- Conclusions
- The Physician's Domain
- Mad-Doctors in the Making
- Identity and Principle
- Disputation and Conflict
- Renaissance Men
- Public Service, Private Gain
- Conclusions
- 'Proper Objects'
- A Growing Patient Population
- Admission - Procedures and Criteria
- Considerations of Curability
- Considerations of Geography
- Considerations of Rank
- 'Unhappy Sufferers'
- Conclusions
- 6. Managing and Curing the Patients
- The Disease of Insanity
- Medical Treatment - 'a dose of physick or a vomit'
- Management and Moral Management
- Restraint and Coercion
- Conclusions
- 7. Aspiration to Actuality
- Growth and Development
- The Deteriorating Institution
- The Servant Problem
- Reform and Improvement
- The Goal of Cure
- Conclusions
- In Conclusion: The Restoration of Reason
