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xviii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Ch. 1. The Rise of the Asylum -- 1. The Social Control of the Mad -- 2. Changing Responses to Insanity: Their Nature and Sources -- 3. Madness and Market Society -- 4. The Differentiation of the Mad -- 5. The Deviant and the State -- Ch. 2. The Social Context of Reform -- 1. Augustan Views of Madness -- 2. Bedlam and the Bedlamites -- 3. Domesticating the Mad -- 4. Wrestling with the Demons of Madness -- 5. The Technology of Treatment -- 6. Free Trade in Lunacy -- 7. The Reformers -- 8. The Cultural Meaning of Madness -- 9. Moral Treatment and the York Retreat -- 10. Sources of the Changing Conceptions of Insanity -- 11. Private Investigations at the York Asylum and at Bethlem -- Ch. 3. The Children of the Curative Asylum -- 1. The 1815-16 Parliamentary Inquiry -- 2. The Fate of the First Reform Bills -- 3. Renewed Parliamentary Investigation -- 4. The Elaboration of a Pro-Institutional Ideology -- 5. The Asylum's Critics -- 6. The Model Institution -- 7. The Reformers Triumphant -- 8. The Ideal and the Reality -- 9. Controlling the Uncontrollable -- Ch. 4. From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs -- 1. The Meanings of Madness -- 2. Madness and Medicine -- 3. The Obstacles to a Medical Monopoly -- 4. The Threats Posed by Moral Treatment -- 5. The Weaknesses of Moral Treatment as a Professional Ideology -- 6. Medical Resistance to Reform -- 7. The Defence of Medical Hegemony -- 8. Persuasion at the Local Level -- 9. Madness as Mental Illness -- Ch. 5. Mad-doctors and Magistrates: Psychiatry's Struggle for Professional Autonomy -- 1. Problems for the New Profession -- 2. Managers of the Mad -- 3. Extra-Institutional Practice -- 4. The Defence of Mental Medicine -- 5. Medical Authority in the Asylum -- Ch. 6. 'Museums for the Collection of Insanity' -- 1. The Growth of the Country Asylum System -- 2. The Accumulation of Chronic Cases -- 3. Mammoth Asylums -- 4. The Custodial Institution -- 5. The Maintenance of Order -- 6. Asylums for the Upper Classes -- 7. Warehousing the Patients -- 8. Pressures to Economize -- 9. The Critics of Asylumdom -- 10. Degeneration and Decay -- 11. The Outcome of Reform -- Ch. 7. The Social Production of Insanity -- 1. Rising Numbers of Madmen -- 2. Official Explanations of the Increase -- 3. An Alternative Explanation -- 4. The Multiplication of Madness -- 5. The Expanding Empire of Asylumdom and the Growth of Lunacy -- 6. Warehouses of the Unwanted -- Ch. 8. The Legacy of Reform -- 1. Competing Accounts of Lunacy Reform -- 2. 'Experts' and the Control of Deviance -- 3. Community Treatment -- 4. The Therapeutic State? |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-426) and index. |
| Summary |
Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. |
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Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History.
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Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History.
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Mental health laws -- England -- History.
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Mental Disorders -- history.
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United Kingdom.
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Social Conditions -- history.
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Social Welfare.
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Mental health laws. (OCoLC)fst01016447
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Mentally ill -- Care.
(OCoLC)fst01016705
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Psychiatric hospital care. (OCoLC)fst01081013
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England. (OCoLC)fst01219920
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Psychische stoornissen.
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Psychiatrische inrichtingen.
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Sociale aspecten.
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| Indexed Term |
Mental health services History |
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England |
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Wales |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Student Collection.
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| ISBN |
0300050518 (alk. paper) |
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9780300050516 (alk. paper) |
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0300107544 (pbk.) |
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9780300107548 (pbk.) |
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