A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania

Susan Piddock (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

265 Seiten

2019 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2007
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-7906-6 (ISBN)

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This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in England, South Australia and Tasmania, and l am happy to send information on South Australia and Tasmania not included in this book to interested readers. I would like to dedicate this book to my family who have lived for many years with my passion for lunatic asylums, and in particular my mother, Margaret Piddock, manuscript reader extraordinary. I would like to thank Professor Vincent Megaw for introducing me to the Destitute Asylum excavation and for starting me on the path of institutional archaeology, and for his and Ruth Megaw’s support through my student years, and Claire Smith and Heather Burke for helping turn research into a thesis. I would like to thank James Gibb for preparing illustrations from my tracings and Dr. Elizabeth Heath, for her support over the years and for reading of this book in its various stages. v P Piddock-FM.indd v iddock-FM.indd v 9 9/7/2007 11:47:25 AM /7/2007 11:47:25 AM Glossary Acute/manic/furious/frantic - these words were used to describe the behaviour of the insane while they were experiencing the initial on set of mental illness or a further period of mental illness when their actions were uncontrolled and the person could not be reasoned with. Patients in this state were often physically restless, sometimes violent, and difficult to reason with.

A Space of Their Own.- The Archaeology of Institutions.- The Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums.- The Changing Face of Insanity and Rise of the Institution.- Constructing the ‘Ideal’.- The British Lunatic Asylum: Ideals and Realities.- South Australia and the ‘Ideal’ Lunatic Asylum.- Tasmania and the ‘Ideal’ Asylum.- The ‘Ideal’ Asylum: A World of Difference.- Conclusion: Archaeology and Lunatic Asylums.

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
Zusatzinfo	XII, 265 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	archaeology of institutions • asylum models • built environments • Historical Archaeology • ‘Ideal’ Asylum • ideal asylums • insanity • John Conolly • lunatic asylum • moral therapy • moral treatment • Nineteenth century • non-restraint • places of horror • Reform
ISBN-10	1-4939-7906-X / 149397906X
ISBN-13	978-1-4939-7906-6 / 9781493979066
Zustand	Neuware