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Author Cherry, Steven, author.

Title Mental health care in modern England : the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum/St. Andrew's Hospital c. 1810-1998 / Steven Cherry
Published Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 335 pages) : illustrations
Contents Asylums, insanity and locality -- Norfolk Lunatic Asylum : plans, problems and patients, 1814-43 -- A superintendent and 'work therapy', 1843-61 -- A medical superintendent, expansion and reform, 1861-87 -- 'Successful conversion' : a managed community, 1887-1915 -- Two histories : the Norfolk War Hospital, 1915-19 -- St. Andrew's Hospital, innovation and constraints, 1920-39 -- Wartime and post-war crises, 1939-48 -- 'Modern treatment carried out under difficulty', 1948-1964 -- Community care and the end of a community, 1964-1998
Summary The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution and in 1998 St Andrew's featured among the last of the large psychiatric hospital closures. This history of one particular place for 'madness' covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England) -- History
St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England) -- History
SUBJECT Norfolk Lunatic Asylum (Norfolk, England) fast
St. Andrew's Hospital (Norfolk, England) fast
Subject Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- Norfolk -- History -- 19th century
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- Norfolk -- History -- 20th century
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness.
MEDICAL -- Mental Health.
Psychiatric hospitals
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002012482
ISBN 1846151201
9781846151200
9780851159201
0851159206