A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors.
An edition of The trade in lunacy
(1971)
The trade in lunacy
a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
by William Llywelyn Parry-Jones
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An historical overview of privately owned mental health institutions in England and Wales between the seventeenth century and the 1970s. This in depth study combines historic reports, statistics, and other important artifacts to provide a clear picture of the successes and failures of such institutions. A number of manuscripts and historic plates are provided for reference in an extensive database of resources and their origins.
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Mentally ill, England, Psychiatric hospitals, Institutional care, Care, History, asylum, mental hospital, mental ward, hospital, historical medicine, medicine, medical history, psych, sanitarium, madhouse, lunatic asylum, lunacy, mental health treatment, private hospital, Commitment of Mentally Ill, Mental Disorders, Mentally ill, great britain, Mentally ill, carePlaces
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The trade in lunacy: a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
1972, Routledge and K. Paul
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Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1971, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Page xv
Abbreviations
Page xvii
Chapter 1.
Introduction
Page 1
Chapter 2.
The 'Trade in Lunacy' in its Historical and Legal Perspective
Page 6
Chapter 3.
The Madhouse System: The Range and Development of its Provisions
Page 29
Chapter 4.
The Private Madhouse Proprietor
Page 74
Chapter 5.
Some Contemporary Descriptions of Nineteenth-Century Private Licensed Houses
Page 96
Chapter 6.
The Private Licensed Houses at Hook Norton and Witney
Page 128
Chapter 7.
Aspects of the Care of the Insane in Private Madhouses and the Outcome of Treatment
Page 168
Chapter 8.
The Principal Abuses and Defects of the Private-Madhouse System: A Review of the Evidence
Page 221
Chapter 9.
Summary and Conclusion
Page 281
Appendix.
293
Bibliography.
Page 331
Index of Private Madhouses.
Page 347
General Index.
Page 352
Edition Notes
Bibliography: p. 331-345.
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