Jonathan ANDREWS / Anne DIGBY (eds.)

Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody

Perspectives on Gender and Class in the History of British and Irish Psychiatry

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9789042011861
• ISBN-10: 9042011866
• Artikelnr.: 46008498

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Andrews is a Senior Lecture in History, specialising in the History of Medicine, at Oxford Brookes. He has published widely in the history of psychiatry, including (jointly authored) A History of Betlem (Routledge, 1997), They're in the Trade of Lunacy (Wellcome Institute, 1998), (with Andrew Scull), Undertaker of the Mind (University of California Press, 2001) and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (University of California Press, 2003). Ann Digby is Research Professosr in History at Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely in the social history of medicine including Madness, Morality and Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Making a Medical Living (Cambridhge University Press, 1994) and The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948 (Oxford University Press, 1999).