Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 06 October 2015

The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 15 September 2008

In the mid-1800s, a utopian movement to rehabilitate the insane resulted in a wave of publicly funded asylums—many of which became unexpected centers of cultural activity. Housed in

• Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
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• Release Date : 01 January 2001

Unlike other studies, Committed to the State Asylum shows the important role that the community played in shaping the asylum and tackles the thorny issue of state development, explaining how

• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
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• Release Date : 18 December 2007

Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have

• Publisher : Springer
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• Release Date : 21 December 2017

This open access book is the first comparative study of public, voluntary and private asylums in nineteenth-century Ireland. Examining nine institutions, it explores whether concepts of social class and status

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
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• Release Date : 15 June 2020

Institutionalizing Gender analyzes the relationship between class, gender, and psychiatry in France from 1789 to 1900, an era noteworthy for the creation of the psychiatric profession, the development of a national asylum

• Publisher : Casemate Publishers
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• Release Date : 30 April 2017

“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of

• Publisher : DigiCat
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• Release Date : 15 September 2022

This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 18 April 2006

The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 11 January 2013

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