Title Outside the walls of the asylum : the history of care in the community 1750-2000 / edited by Peter Bartlett & David Wright

Published London ; New Brunswick, N.J. : Athlone Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 337 pages) Series Studies in Psychical Research Studies in psychical research. Contents Preface; Notes on Contributors; Tables and Figures; 1 Community care and its antecedents; 2 ''Not simple boarding'': care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the long eighteenth century; 3 At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century; 4 Family, community and the lunatic in mid-nineteenth-century North Wales; 5 Boarding-out insane patients: the significance of the Scottish system 1857-1913 6 Enclosing and disclosing lunatics within the family walls: domestic psychiatric regime and the public sphere in early nineteenth-century England7 Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland; 8 Families, communities and the legal regulation of lunacy in Victorian England: Assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum, 1845-1914; 9 Community care and mental deficiency 1913 to 1945; 10 Rhetoric and reality: community care in England and Wales, 1948-74 11 Mental Health Policy, Care in the Community and Political Conflict: the Case of the Integrated Service in Northern Ireland12 Outside the Walls of the Asylum? Psychiatric Treatment in the 1980s and 1990s; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z Summary This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construction of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners Analysis madness asylum Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL SUBJECT Großbritannien Consulate Frankfurt am Main gnd Subject Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History Mental health policy -- Great Britain -- History Psychiatric hospital care -- Ireland -- History Psychiatric hospitals -- Ireland -- History Mental health policy -- Ireland -- History Mental Health Services -- history Health Policy -- history Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. MEDICAL -- Mental Health. Mental health policy Psychiatric hospital care Psychiatric hospitals Stationäre psychiatrische Versorgung Aufsatzsammlung Psychisch gestoorden. Informele zorg. Gezondheidszorg. Malades mentaux -- Soins -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. Malades mentaux -- Soins -- Irlande -- Histoire. Hôpitaux psychiatriques -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. Hôpitaux psychiatriques -- Irlande -- Histoire. Politique de santé mentale -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire. Politique de santé mentale -- Irlande -- Histoire. SUBJECT Ireland. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79063445 United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113 Ireland https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007494 Subject Great Britain Ireland Irland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Bartlett, Peter Wright, David, 1965- ISBN 9780567598509 0567598500 1283200996 9781283200998 9786613200990 6613200999

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