Confinement Of The Insane
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Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2003-08-07 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 1139439626 |
The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in the history of medicine. Academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed 'insane', exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation. Originally published in 2003, this edited volume brings together thirteen original research papers to answer key questions in the history of asylums. What forces led to the emergence of mental hospitals in different national contexts? To what extent did patient populations vary in terms of their psychiatric profile and socio-economic background? What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context.
Author | : Roy Porter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2003-08-07 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780521802062 |
This collection of essays explores the development of the lunatic asylum, and the concept of confinement for those considered insane, in different national contexts over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Leading scholars in the field of medical history have contributed extensive primary research through individual case studies in the context of the legal, social, economic, and political situations of thirteen different countries. The book represents the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and is, therefore, a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.
Author | : Thomas Duché Mitchell |
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Total Pages | : 1 |
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Genre | : Insanity (Law) |
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Author | : Thomas Duche' Mitchell |
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Total Pages | : 62 |
Release | : 1845 |
Genre | : Insanity (Law) |
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Author | : David Wright |
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Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Isaac Ray |
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Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1869 |
Genre | : Insanity (Law) |
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Author | : Isaac Ray |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Insanity (Law) |
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Author | : Lorna A. Rhodes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2004-02-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520240766 |
"Ethnographically rich, thick with gritty details and original insights, Rhodes's revelatory book about US prisons--those who are incarcerated in them and those who run them--should be read by everyone who cares about social justice and the nature of power."—Emily Martin, author of Flexible Bodies "Thank you, Lorna Rhodes, for taking us to where the 'worst of the worst' are kept out of sight and out of mind in the new millennium. This powerful ethnography of the correctional high tech machine reveals how institutional power suffocates individual agency and redefines rationality and insanity. Good, bad and evil fall by the wayside."—Philippe Bourgois, author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio "A truly remarkable book. The inside look at supermax confinement alone is worth the price of admission, and the prose sometimes verges on poetry. This is meticulous scholarship."—Hans Toch, author of Living in Prison
Author | : Michel Foucault |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2013-01-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307833100 |
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Author | : Alisa Roth |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-06-09 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781541646476 |
An urgent exposé of the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.