Introduction, Thomas Knowles, Serena Trowbridge; Part I Literary; Chapter 1 Horrible Dens of Deception: Thomas Bakewell, Thomas Mulock and Antiasylum Sentiments, c.181560, Rebecca Wynterk; Chapter 2 This Most Noble of Disorders: Matilda Betham on the Reformation of the Madhouse, Elaine Bailey; Chapter 3 The Legacy of Victorian Asylums in the Landscape of Contemporary British Literature, Thomas Knowles; Part II Quantitative; Chapter 4 Building a Lunatic Asylum: A Question of Beer, Milk and the Irish, Bernard Melling; Chapter 5 Just cant Work them Hard Enough: A Historical Bioarcheological Study of the Inmate Experience at the Oneida County Asylum, Shawn M. Phillips; Chapter 6 Always Bear in Mind that You are in Your Senses: Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century from Keeper to attendant to Nurse, Claire Chatterton; Chapter 7 Atrophied, Engorged, Debauched: Degenerative Processes and Moral Worth in the General Paralytic Body, Jennifer Wallis; Part III Cultural; Chapter 8 Attitudes Passionelles: The Pornographic Spaces of the Salpetriere, Amanda Finelli; Chapter 9 The Poison that Upsets my Reason: Men, Madness and Drunkenness in the Victorian Period, Kostas Makras; Chapter 10 Madness and Masculinity: Male Patients in London Asylums and Victorian Culture, Helen Goodman; Chapter 11 Straitjacket: A Confined History, Will Wiles;
