The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.
| Author/creator |
Melling, Joseph |
| Other author/creator | Forsythe, Bill. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, |
| Description | xvii, 278 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Contents | Introduction: The English asylum and its historians -- The origins of the asylum -- The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914 -- The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914 -- Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum -- From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-270) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005018894 |
| ISBN | 9780415301749 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0415301742 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780203335345 (ebk.) |
| ISBN | 0203335341 (ebk.) |
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