Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-350) and index.
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Relections on the historical sociology of psychiatry -- Humanitarianism or control? Some observations on the historiography of Anglo-American psychiatry -- The domestication of madness -- Moral treatment reconsidered -- The discovery of the Asylum revisited: lunacy reform in the New American Republic -- From Madness to mental illness: medical men as moral entrepreneurs -- John Conolly: a Victorian psychiatric career -- Moral architecture; the Victorian lunatic asylum -- Was insanity increasing? -- Progressive dreams, progressive nightmares: social control in twentieth-century America -- Dazeland -- The theory and practice of civil commitment -- The asylum as community or the community as Asylum: paradoxes and contradictions of mental health care.