'An original contribution to our understanding of how gender, and especially masculinity, impacted the experience and representation of madness in Victorian Britain.'
Katie Barclay, The American Historical Review
'Out of His Mind builds upon and strengthens work already done in the history of science to destabilise gendered notions of scientific and medical authority.'
Heather Ellis, Women's History Review
'Amy Milne-Smith makes an important contribution to historical understandings of the multi-dimensional interactions between gender and mental health, encompassing the medical, social, attitudinal and cultural.'
Leonard Smith, Cultural and Social History
Introduction: Madmen in the attic?
1 Men in care: the asylum
2 Men in the community: homecare, doctors care, and travellers
3 Personal shame: failures of morality and the will
4 Madmen out of the attic: reputation, rage, and liberty
5 Media panics: stories of violence, danger, and men out of control
6 Degeneration and madness: inheritance, neurasthenia, criminals, and GPI
Epilogue