Work, psychiatry and society, c. 1750-2015 (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Ernst, Waltraud

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first systematic critical appraisal of the uses of work and work therapy in psychiatric institutions across the globe, from the late eighteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Contributors explore the daily routine in psychiatric institutions and ask whether work was therapy, part of a regime of punishment or a means of exploiting free labour. By focusing on mental patients' day-to-day life in closed institutions, the authors fill a gap in the history of psychiatric regimes. The geographical scope is wide, ranging from Northern America to Japan, India and Western as well as Eastern Europe, and the authors engage with broad historical questions, such as the impact of colonialism and communism and the effect of the World Wars. The book presents an alternative history of the emergence of occupational therapy and will be of interest not only to academics in the fields of history and sociology but also to health professionals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526109262
• Artikelnr.: 57471914

Autorenporträt

Waltraud Ernst is Professor of the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Therapy and empowerment, coercion and punishment: historical and contemporary perspectives on work, psychiatry and society
Waltraud Ernst 1. The role of work in late eighteenth
and early nineteenth
century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain
Jane Freebody 2. Therapeutic work and mental illness in America, c. 1830
1970
Ben Harris 3. Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800
70
James Moran 4. From blasting powder to tomato pickles: patient work at the provincial mental hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, c. 1885
1920
Kathryn McKay 5. 'Useful both to the patients as well as to the State'. Patient work in colonial mental hospitals in South Asia, c. 1818
1948
Waltraud Ernst 6. 'A powerful agent in their recovery': work as treatment in British West Indian lunatic asylums, 1860
1910
Leonard Smith 7. Work and activity in mental hospitals in modern Japan, c. 1868
2000
Akira Hashimoto 8. Patient work and family care at Iwakura, Japan, c. 1799
1970
Osamu Nakamura 9. Work and occupation in Romanian psychiatry, c. 1838
1945
Valentin
Veron Toma 10. Between therapeutic instrument and exploitation of labour force: patient work in rural asylums in Württemberg, c. 1810
1945
Thomas Müller 11. The patient's view of work therapy: the mental hospital Hamburg
Langenhorn during the Weimar Republic
Monika Ankele 12. They were 'improved', punished and cured: the construction of 'workshy', 'industrious' and (non
)compliant inmates in forced labour facilities in the First Republic of Austria between 1918 and 1938
Sonja Hinsch 13. Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870
1914
Sarah Chaney 14. Work and the Irish District Asylums during the late nineteenth century
Oonagh Walsh 15. From work and occupation to occupational therapy. The policies of professionalisation in English mental hospitals from 1919 to 1959
John Hall 16. Work is therapy? The function of employment in British psychiatric care after 1959
Vicky Long 17. The hollow gardener and other stories: reason and relation in the work cure
Jennifer Laws Index