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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
Author(s): Bill Forsythe (Editor), Joseph Melling
- Publisher: Routledge
- Publication Date: 29 April 2015
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 340 pages
- ISBN-10: 1138868248
- ISBN-13: 9781138868243
Book Description
This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The editors and contributors to Insanity, Institutions and Society deserve our thanks for significantly expanding our understanding of the rise of the asylum in nineteenth-century Britain.’ – Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers University
‘This excellent collection focuses on the early English county asylum system; shifts in therapeutic regimes; the reform of administrative structures in Wales, Scotland and Ireland; and contemporaneous developments in South Africa and the Raj’ – Bill Luckin, Economic History Review
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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
