INSANITY, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY, 1800-1914 by Bill Forsythe (Editor), Joseph Melling (Editor) ( 9780415184410 )

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INSANITY, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY, 1800-1914

By:

Bill Forsythe (Editor), Joseph Melling (Editor)

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Hardback

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041518441X

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9780415184410

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 April, 1999

Series:

Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

Pages:

352

Description:

A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Synopsis:

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.

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3 black & white tables

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