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Mental illness and learning disability since 1850 : Finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: London Routledge 2006Description: 234p xiiISBN:
  • 9780415364911
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.200000 DAL
Contents:
Table of contents 1. The Politics of Mental Welfare: Fresh Perspectives on the History of Institutionalized Care for the Mentally Ill and Disabled; 2. Workhouse Care of the Insane 1845-1890; 3. Needs and Desires in the Care of Paper Lunatics: Admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872; 4. 'Buried Alive by her Friends' Asylum Narratives and the English Governess, 1845-1914; 5. Separatism and Exclusion: Women in Psychiatry 1900-1950; 6. Family, Gender and Class in Psychiatric Patient Care during the 1930s: The Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital; 7. The 'Manufacture' of Mental Defectives Increased in Scotland (1857-1939); 8. Tension in the Voluntary-Statutory Alliance: 'Lay Professionals' and the Planning and Delivery of Mental Deficiency Services, 1917-1945; 9.'A Satisfactory Job Is the Best Psychiatrist' Employment and Mental Health 1939- 60; 10. Inside the Walls of the Hostel 1930-1974; 11. Landmarks in the Care of the Mentally Disordered
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Table of contents
1. The Politics of Mental Welfare: Fresh Perspectives on the History of Institutionalized Care for the Mentally Ill and Disabled;
2. Workhouse Care of the Insane 1845-1890;
3. Needs and Desires in the Care of Paper Lunatics: Admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872;
4. 'Buried Alive by her Friends' Asylum Narratives and the English Governess, 1845-1914;
5. Separatism and Exclusion: Women in Psychiatry 1900-1950;
6. Family, Gender and Class in Psychiatric Patient Care during the 1930s: The Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital;
7. The 'Manufacture' of Mental Defectives Increased in Scotland (1857-1939);
8. Tension in the Voluntary-Statutory Alliance: 'Lay Professionals' and the Planning and Delivery of Mental Deficiency Services, 1917-1945;
9.'A Satisfactory Job Is the Best Psychiatrist' Employment and Mental Health 1939- 60;
10. Inside the Walls of the Hostel 1930-1974;
11. Landmarks in the Care of the Mentally Disordered