The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives, 1800–1965Roy Porter, David Wright Cambridge University Press, 7 d’ag. 2003 The rise of the asylum constitutes one of the most profound, and controversial, events in the history of medicine. Academics around the world have begun to direct their attention to the origins of the confinement of those deemed 'insane', exploring patient records in an attempt to understand the rise of the asylum within the wider context of social and economic change of nations undergoing modernisation. Originally published in 2003, this edited volume brings together thirteen original research papers to answer key questions in the history of asylums. What forces led to the emergence of mental hospitals in different national contexts? To what extent did patient populations vary in terms of their psychiatric profile and socio-economic background? What was the role of families, communities and the medical profession in the confinement process? This volume therefore represents a landmark study in the history of psychiatry by examining asylum confinement in a global context. |
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the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum18461910 | 20 |
Cery Vaud and BelAir Genev asylums | 54 |
voluntary committal in Parisian asylum 18761914 | 79 |
the Hamilton and Toronto asylums c 18611891 | 100 |
the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria Australia 18481900 | 129 |
case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany 19191960 | 149 |
the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital 18281920 | 173 |
9 The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina 18901946 | 226 |
mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum Mexico 19101930 | 248 |
11 Psychiatry and confinement in India | 273 |
12 Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria | 299 |
the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth and twentiethcentury Ireland | 315 |
14 The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 | 334 |
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8 The state family and the insane in Japan 19001945 | 193 |
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