Roy Porter / David Wright (eds.)

The Confinement of the Insane

International Perspectives, 1800 1965
Herausgeber: Porter, Roy; Wright, David

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Produktbeschreibung

2003 collection of international essays exploring the rise of the lunatic asylum in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 785g
• ISBN-13: 9780521802062
• ISBN-10: 0521802067
• Artikelnr.: 20969127

Autorenporträt

Roy Porter was Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He died in March 2002.
David Wright is Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Neurosciences and Department of History, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Roy Porter; 1. Insanity, institutions and society: the case of
Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 Harriet Deacon; 2. The confinement
of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-70: Cery and Bel-Air asylums Jacques
Gasser and Geneviève Heller; 3. Family strategies and medical power:
'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 Patricia E.
Prestwich; 4. The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada: the
Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-91 David Wright, James Moran and Sean
Gouglas; 5. Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of
the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 Catharine Coleborne; 6. The
'Wittenauer Heilstätten' in Berlin: a case record study of psychiatric
patients in Germany, 1919-60 Andrea Dörries and Thomas Beddies; 7. Curative
asylum, custodial hospital: the South Carolina lunatic asylum and state
hospital, 1828-1920 Peter McCandless; 8. The state, family, and the insane
in Japan, 1900-45 Akihito Suzuki; 9. The limits of psychiatric reform in
Argentina, 1890-1946 Jonathan D. Ablard; 10. Becoming mad in revolutionary
Mexico: mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-30
Cristina Rivera-Garza; 11. Psychiatry and confinement in India Sanjeev
Jain; 12. Confinements and colonialism in Nigeria Jonathan Sadowsky; 13.
'Ireland's crowded madhouses': the institutional confinement of the insane
in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland Elizabeth Malcolm; 14. The
administration of insanity in England, 1800-70 Elaine Murphy.