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Author: Thomas BAKEWELL (Weaver.)
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Bakewell
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Published: 1815
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Knowles
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1317318552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.
Author: Leonard Smith
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 1999-06-01
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 056724041X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of the pioneer early county asylums, which were intended to provide for the 'cure', and 'safe custody' of people suffering from the ravages of insanity. It considers the origins of the asylums, how they were managed, the people who staffed them, their treatment practices, and the experiences of the people who were incarcerated. 'Community care' in the late 20th century has led us to abandon the network of nineteenth century lunatic asylums. This book reminds us of the ideals that lay behind them. The book contains extensive material regarding particular cities/counties, e.g. Nottingham, Lincoln, Stafford, Wakefield, Lancaster, Bedford, West Riding, Norfolk, Cornwall, Dorset, Suffolk, etc.
Author: Leonard Smith
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-06-18
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 3030416402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 the seriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.
Author: William Ll. Parry-Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1135031428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 2006. A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business proposition for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors. The history of such establishments in England and Wales can be traced for a period of over three and a half centuries, from the early seventeenth century up to the present day. This volume is a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: Samuel Greatheed
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Published: 1816
Total Pages: 656
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Published: 1816
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Neuendorf
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-11-19
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 3030843564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.
Author: Michelle Faubert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-10-06
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 131731431X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the Romantic era, psychology and literature enjoyed a fluid relationship. Faubert focuses on psychologist-poets who grew out of the literary-medical culture of the Scottish Enlightenment. They used poetry as an accessible form to communicate emerging psychological, cultural and moral ideas.
