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245 04 $aThe confinement of the insane :$binternational perspectives, 1800-1965 /$cedited by Roy Porter and David Wright.
260 $aCambridge, U.K. ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2003.
300 $axvii, 371 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aInsanity, 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.
520 $aThis collection examines the origins of asylum as a mechanism for the treatment of insanity. Taking a global view, it considers the socioeconomic & theoretical factors which have shaped the modern notion of madness & the need for confinement of those deemed to be insane.
650 0 $aPsychiatric hospitals$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPsychiatric hospitals$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aMentally ill$xCommitment and detention$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aMentally ill$xCommitment and detention$y20th century.
650 12 $aCommitment of Mentally Ill$xHistory.
650 22 $aCross-Cultural Comparison.
650 22 $aHistory, 19th Century.
650 22 $aHistory, 20th Century.
650 22 $aHospitals, Psychiatric$xHistory.
655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
700 1 $aPorter, Roy,$d1946-2002.
700 1 $aWright, David,$d1965-
988 $a20031020
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