Author: Godfrey HigginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
The Evidence Taken Before a Committee of the House of Commons Respecting the Asylum at York
Author: Godfrey HigginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health services
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830
Author: Leonard SmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134187785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asylums during the nineteenth century. This is an impressive volume which covers various areas including: the provincial lunatic hospitals managing the hospital managing the insane. This book will interest specialist historians as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local and regional studies.
The Most Solitary of Afflictions
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300107548
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. Originally published: 1993.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
From York Lunatic Asylum to Bootham Park Hospital
Author: Anne DigbyPublisher: Borthwick Publications
ISBN: 9780900701610
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Asylum as Utopia (Psychology Revivals)
Author: Andrew ScullPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317911741
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and ideologically resonant description of the contrasting virtues of the reformed asylum, a hive of therapeutic activity under the benevolent but autocratic guidance and control of its medical superintendent, provided within a brief compass a strikingly attractive alternative vision of an apparently attainable utopia. Browne’s book thus provided important impetus to the efforts then under way to make the provision of county asylums compulsory, and towards the institution of a national system of asylum inspection and supervision. This edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, contains a lengthy introductory essay by Andrew Scull. Scull discusses the social context within which What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be came to be written, examines the impact of the book on the progress of lunacy reform, and places its author’s career in the larger framework of the development of Victorian psychiatry as an organised profession. Through an examination of Browne’s tenure as superintendent of the Crichton Royal Asylum in Dumfries, Scull compares the theory and practice of asylum care in the moral treatment era, revealing the remorseless processes through which such philanthropic foundations degenerated into more or less well-tended cemeteries for the still-breathing – institutions almost startlingly remote from Browne’s earlier visions of what they ought to be.
Historical Studies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews."
The Edinburgh Review
Author: The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal
Author: For the Cause of Truth
Author: J. Ann HonePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description