Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914
ISBN-10
1134668759
ISBN-13
9781134668755
Category
History
Pages
335
Language
English
Published
2013-01-11
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe

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.

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