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1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Contents |
Preface; Notes on Contributors; Tables and Figures; 1 Community care and its antecedents; 2 ''Not simple boarding'': care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century; 3 At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century; 4 Family, community and the lunatic in mid-nineteenth-century North Wales; 5 Boarding-out insane patients: the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913. |
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6 Enclosing and disclosing lunatics within the family walls: domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England7 Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland; 8 Families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England: Assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914; 9 Community care and mental deficiency 1913 to 1945; 10 Rhetoric and reality: community care in England and Wales, 1948-74. |
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11 Mental Health Policy, Care in the Community and Political Conflict: the Case of the Integrated Service in Northern Ireland12 Outside the Walls of the Asylum? Psychiatric Treatment in the 1980s and 1990s; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History.
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Psychiatric hospital care. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History.
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Psychiatric hospitals. |
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Mental health policy -- Great Britain -- History.
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Mental health policy. |
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Psychiatric hospital care -- Ireland -- History.
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Ireland. |
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Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History.
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Mental health policy -- Ireland -- History.
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Mental Health Services -- history. |
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Health Policy -- history. |
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Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history. |
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United Kingdom. |
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Ireland. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte 1750-1999 |
| Indexed Term |
madness |
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asylum |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Bartlett, Peter.
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Wright, David, 1965-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Outside the walls of the asylum. London ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1999 0485115417 (DLC) 98054264 (OCoLC)40453142 |
| ISBN |
9780567598509 (electronic book) |
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0567598500 (electronic book) |
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0485115417 |
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9780485115413 |
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0485121476 |
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9780485121476 |
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