Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Anna Shepherd (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-92588-2 (ISBN)

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The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.

Introduction: Contexts of Insanity; Chapter 1 Caring For Surrey’s Insane: Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium; Chapter 2 Therapeutic Agents: Doctors and Attendants; Chapter 3 Origins and Journeys: The Patients at Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium; Chapter 4 ‘Hurry, Worry, Annoyance and Needless Trouble’: Patients In Residence; Chapter 5 The Taxonomy and Treatment of Insanity; Chapter 6 Suicide, Self-Harm and Madness in the Asylum; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

Erscheinungsdatum	16.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	444 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
Themenwelt	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-032-92588-4 / 1032925884
ISBN-13	978-1-032-92588-2 / 9781032925882
Zustand	Neuware