The 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 | : David Wright |
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Release | : 1997 |
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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 | : Isaac Ray |
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Total Pages | : 22 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Insanity (Law) |
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Author | : Isaac Ray |
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Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 1869 |
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 | : Emily Baum |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2018-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022655824X |
Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.