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The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 /

This collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of those deemed insane, in different national contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is therefore the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and a landmark comparative study...

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Други автори: Porter, Roy, 1946-2002., Wright, David, 1965-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
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Онлайн достъп: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=120675
Подобни документи: Print version:: Confinement of the insane.
Съдържание:
  • Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon
  • The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Genevie€ve Heller
  • Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 / Patricia E. Prestwich
  • The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada : the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-1891 / David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas
  • Passage to the asylum : the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 / Catharine Coleborne
  • The Wittenauer Heilsta˜tten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea Do˜rries and Thomas Beddies
  • Curative asylum, custodial hospital : the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828-1920 / Peter McCandless
  • The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900-1945 / Akihito Suzuki
  • The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890-1946 / Jonathan D. Ablard
  • Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico : mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-1930 / Cristina Rivera-Garza
  • Psychiatry and confinement in India / Sanjeev Jain
  • Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky
  • 'Ireland's crowded madhouses' : the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Malcolm
  • The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 / Elaine Murphy.