Title Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / Akihito Suzuki.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
	©2006

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Description	1 online resource (1 volume).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Medicine and society ; 13
	Medicine and society ; 13.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Commission of lunacy: background, sources, and contents -- The structure of the psychiatric bedside -- The problems of liberty and property -- Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere -- Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime -- Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.
Summary	This provocatively argued study, paints a fascinating picture of how families viewed and managed madness, suggesting that the family actually played a critical role in caring for the insane and in the development of psychiatry itself.
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Subject	Mentally ill -- Care -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Mentally ill -- Care.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Mentally ill -- Home care -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Mentally ill -- Home care.
	Mentally ill -- Family relationships -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Mentally ill -- Family relationships.
	Mental health laws -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Mental health laws.
	Psychiatry -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Psychiatry.
	Psychiatry -- history.
	History, 19th Century.
	Mental Disorders -- history.
	England.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Added Title	Psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860
Other Form:	Print version: Suzuki, Akihito, 1963- Madness at home. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2006 0520245806 (DLC) 2005010547 (OCoLC)59148450
ISBN	9780520932210 (electronic book)
	0520932218 (electronic book)
	1423745485 (electronic book)
	9781423745488 (electronic book)
	1598759310
	9781598759310
	9780520245808 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0520245806 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1282358839
	9781282358836

Title Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 / Akihito Suzuki.

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