From York Lunatic Asylum to Bootham Park Hospital
Author: Anne Digby
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780900701610
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Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830
Author: Leonard Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-18
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1134187777
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asylums during the nineteenth century. This is an impressive volume which covers various areas including: the provincial lunatic hospitals managing the hospital managing the insane. This book will interest specialist historians as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local and regional studies.
Madness, Architecture and the Built Environment
Author: James Moran
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-19
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1135653151
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first volume of papers devoted to an examination of the relationship between mental health/illness and the construction and experience of space. This historical analysis with contributions from leading experts will enlighten and intrigue in equal measure. The first rigorous scholarly analysis of its kind in book form, it will be of particular interest to the history, psychiatry and architecture communities.
From County Hospital to NHS Trust
Author: Katherine A. Webb
Publisher: Borthwick Publications
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780903857994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Directions in Sport History
Author: Duncan Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 1317525663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmerging from the ‘history from below’ movement, sport history was marginalised for decades by those working within more traditional historical fields (and institutions). Although a degree of ignorance still exists, sport history has now acquired a level of credibility through the dedicated work of professional historians. And yet, as this authority has been established, changes to UK higher education funding (the removal of direct state funding, the Research Excellence Framework, and tuition fees) and academic publishing (open access) have the potential to damage, or even end, sports research. This book examines sport history from a variety of perspectives. Do mainstream historians need to engage, or ‘play’, with sports historians? Has the postmodernist ‘cultural turn’ in sports history been helpful to the sub-discipline? How can the teaching of sports studies be more innovative and inspiring? How can oral history and sport history be utilised in the study of other branches of historical interest. Although changes are required in dealing with the current political reality of UK higher education, sport history still has a great deal to offer students, future employers and the public alike. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody
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.
Mental Health Care in Modern England
Author: Steven Cherry
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780851159201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution, the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, later St Andrew's Hospital, provided psychiatric care until 1998. It's history covers two centuries of different approaches to mental health care, reorganisations & disturbing events during times of national emergency.
Performing Medicine
Author: Michael Brown
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2018-02-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 152612971X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen did medicine become modern? This book takes a fresh look at one of the most important questions in the history of medicine. It explores how the cultures, values and meanings of medicine were transformed across the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as its practitioners came to submerge their local identities as urbane and learned gentlemen into the ideal of a nationwide and scientifically-based medical profession. Moving beyond traditional accounts of professionalization, it demonstrates how visions of what medicine was and might be were shaped by wider social and political forces, from the eighteenth-century values of civic gentility to the radical and socially progressive ideologies of the age of reform. Focusing on the provincial English city of York, it draws on a rich and wide-ranging archival record, including letters, diaries, newspapers and portraits, to reveal how these changes took place at the level of everyday practice, experience and representation.
Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
Author: Bill Forsythe
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 1134668759
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Permeable Walls
Author: Graham Mooney
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9042026324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first book devoted to the history of hospital and asylum visiting and deflects attention from medical history's more traditionally studied constituencies, patients and doctors. Covering the eighteenth to the late twentieth centuries, and taking case studies from around the globe, the authors demonstrate that hospitals and asylums could be remarkably permeable institutions. However, policies towards visitors have varied from outright exclusion, as in the case of some isolation hospitals in Victorian Britain, to near open access in the first Chinese missionary hospitals. Historical studies of visitors and visiting, as a result, tell us much about the changing relationship between healthcare institutions and the communities they serve. These histories are particularly relevant at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients' representatives in healthcare decision making; to control hospital super-bugs; and to make the hospital environment accessible yet safe and secure. With the re-emergence of restricted visiting, the subject remains one of the most emotive topics in the history of institutional medicine.
