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The confinement of the insane :

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The confinement of the insane :

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international perspectives, 1800-1965 /

edited by Roy Porter and David Wright.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

2003.

1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) :

illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon -- The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Geneviève Heller -- Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 / Patricia E. Prestwich -- The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada : the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-1891 / David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas -- Passage to the asylum : the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 / Catharine Coleborne -- The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea Dörries and Thomas Beddies -- Curative asylum, custodial hospital : the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828-1920 / Peter McCandless -- The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900-1945 / Akihito Suzuki -- The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890-1946 / Jonathan D. Ablard -- Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico : mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-1930 / Cristina Rivera-Garza -- Psychiatry and confinement in India / Sanjeev Jain -- Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky -- 'Ireland's crowded madhouses' : the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Malcolm -- The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 / Elaine Murphy.

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This collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of those deemed insane, in different national contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is therefore the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.

Confinement of the insane.

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Mentally ill-- Commitment and detention-- 20th century.

Mentally ill-- Commitment and detention-- History-- 19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals-- History-- 19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals-- History-- 20th century.

Commitment of Mentally Ill-- history.

Cross-Cultural Comparison.

History, 19th Century.

History, 20th Century.

Hospitals, Psychiatric-- history.

MEDICAL-- Mental Health.

Mentally ill-- Commitment and detention.

Psychiatric hospitals.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Mental Health.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Mental Illness.

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PSY-- 036000

Porter, Roy,1946-2002.

Wright, David,1965-

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