Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815
Commercialised Care for the Insane
This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private 'madhouses'. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-41640-9
- EAN: 9783030416409
- Produktnummer: 34292354
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 323 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 7'393 KB
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
- Abbildungen: 12 schwarz-weiße und 5 farbige Abbildungen, Bibliographie
Über den Autor
Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include 'Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody': Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (1999), Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (2007), and Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 (2014).
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