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Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England - Anna Shepherd

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

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Buch | Hardcover
240 Seiten
2014
Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84893-431-3 (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.

Anna Shepherd is Alumni Relations & Partnerships Manager at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She has worked in publishing at the Institute of Historical Research and in contemporary health contexts, such as the Centre for Suicide Research, Oxford University and the London School of Hyiene & Tropical Medicine. She has published several papers on her work at a variety of national and international conferences, as well as articles and book chapters.

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;

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.4.2014
Reihe/Serie Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Studium Querschnittsbereiche Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10 1-84893-431-9 / 1848934319
ISBN-13 978-1-84893-431-3 / 9781848934313
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