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Outside the Walls of the Asylum Peter Bartlett

Outside the Walls of the Asylum By Peter Bartlett

Outside the Walls of the Asylum by Peter Bartlett


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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.

Outside the Walls of the Asylum Summary

Outside the Walls of the Asylum: On Care in the Community in Modern Britain and Ireland by Peter Bartlett

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.

Table of Contents

Community care and its antecedents, Peter Bartlett and David Wright; "not simple boarding" - care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long 18th century, R.A.B. Houston; at home with perpetual mania - the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the 19th century, Hilary Marland; family, community and the lunatic in mid-19th-century North Wales, David Hirst and Pamela Michael; boarding-out insane patients - the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913, Harriet Sturdy and William Parry-Jones; enclosing and disclosing lunatics in the family walls -domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early 19th-century England, Akihito Suzuki; lunatic and criminal alliances in 19th-century Ireland, Oonagh Walsh; families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England - assesments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914, Jo Melling et al; community care and mental deficiency, Jan Walmsley et al; rhetoric and reality - community care in England and Wales, 1948-74, John Welshman; mental health policy, care in the community and political conflict - the case of the integrated service in Northern Ireland, Jim Campbell; outside the walls of the asylum? psychiatric treatments in the 1980s and 1990s, Sarah Payne.

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GOR013726821
9780485115413
0485115417
Outside the Walls of the Asylum: On Care in the Community in Modern Britain and Ireland by Peter Bartlett
Used - Good
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
1999-10-01
260
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