Description
This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.
About the Author
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
Reviews
Book Information
ISBN 9781138868243
Author Bill Forsythe
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 385g
About the Author
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
Reviews
'The editors and contributors to Insanity, Institutions and Society deserve our thanks for significantly expanding our understanding of the rise of the asylum in nineteenth-century Britain.' - Gerald N. Grob, Rutgers University
'This excellent collection focuses on the early English county asylum system; shifts in therapeutic regimes; the reform of administrative structures in Wales, Scotland and Ireland; and contemporaneous developments in South Africa and the Raj' - Bill Luckin, Economic History Review
Book Information
ISBN 9781138868243
Author Bill Forsythe
Format Paperback
Page Count 352
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 385g
