Genre
- Book, Section
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 Genevi?ve 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 Heilst?tten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea D?rries 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.
xvii; ill. ; 24 cm.; Note(s): Includes bibliographical references and index.; General Info: US National Bibliography No: GBA4-24221; GBA3-Y2705; Responsibility: edited by Roy Porter and David Wright. Vendor Info: Ingram Baker and Taylor YBP Library Services Baker & Taylor (INGR BTCP YANK BKTY) 90.00 Status: active; Date of Entry: 20020813; Update: 20070726
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Language
- English
Subjects
- History, 19th Century
- Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- 20th century
- Internet resource (url)
- Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- History -- 19th century
- History, 20th Century
- Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 19th century
- Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 20th century
- Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history
- Psychiatrische inrichtingen
- Cross-Cultural Comparison