Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane: Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Autor Leonard Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 iun 2021
This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to theseriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.  
Citește tot Restrânge

Toate formatele și edițiile

Toate formatele și edițiile Preț Express
Paperback (1) 62190 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Springer International Publishing – 20 iun 2021 62190 lei  6-8 săpt.
Hardback (1) 63206 lei  6-8 săpt.
  Springer International Publishing – 19 iun 2020 63206 lei  6-8 săpt.

Din seria Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Preț: 62190 lei

Preț vechi: 73165 lei
-15% Nou

Puncte Express: 933

Preț estimativ în valută:
11903 12406$ 9909£

Carte tipărită la comandă

Livrare economică 06-20 ianuarie 25

Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783030416423
ISBN-10: 3030416429
Pagini: 323
Ilustrații: XIX, 323 p. 17 illus., 5 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Macmillan
Seria Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1 Introduction - The Rise of the Private Madhouse.- 2 Houses for the Distracted, 1600-1700.- 3 Madhouses in the Market-Place, 1701-1774.- 4 An Expanding Madhouse Network, 1775-1815.- 5 Madhouse Patients.- 6 Madhouse Entrepreneurs.- 7 Therapeutics of the Madhouse.- 8 Conditions and Controversy.- 9 Conclusion - Insanity and Enterprise.- 



Recenzii

“His meticulous research unearths a rich array of publications, print sources, parliamentary evidence, and newspapers, while his close scouring of local archives has produced a mass of detailed evidence across the country with which to compare and contrast provision in different localities. … Smith’s analysis is both readable and well informed as he unpicks the emergence of the trade of lunacy in meticulous detail … concentrated predominantly in the East End, with the various provincial districts of England.” (Hilary Marland,Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (2), April, 2021)

Notă biografică

Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include ‘Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody’: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (1999), Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (2007), and Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 (2014).     


Textul de pe ultima copertă

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private ‘madhouses’. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to theseriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.  

Caracteristici

Offers new archival findings on private institutional care, particularly addressing the scarcity of work on the pre-modern period Shows the key role played by the private sector in the development of institutions for the mentally ill over two hundred years Written by a leading scholar in the history of mental health, who draws on thirty years of archival research and work in this area