Add to ORKGThe 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
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It...
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. A...
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in ...
Book synopsis: An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth ce...
The very things that provided a Victorian man’s status, his self worth, and his identity could also ...
Both the ‘hidden history’ of men’s mental health and the perceived pressures of ‘modern’ life in the...
The Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (LLA) opened in 1820 and, in 1837, became the first asylum in the country...
This thesis will explore the intersectional construction of the British asylum network in the ninete...
A major movement in the history of insanity and asylums, and most particularly in the history of the...
Today, unlike in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few specialised institutions to c...
There is a wide and impressive historiography about British lunatic asylums in the nineteenth centu...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
This article seeks, through the medium of a case study of the York Lunatic Asylum scandal of 1813 to...
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It...
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. A...
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in ...
Book synopsis: An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth ce...
The very things that provided a Victorian man’s status, his self worth, and his identity could also ...
Both the ‘hidden history’ of men’s mental health and the perceived pressures of ‘modern’ life in the...
The Lincoln Lunatic Asylum (LLA) opened in 1820 and, in 1837, became the first asylum in the country...
This thesis will explore the intersectional construction of the British asylum network in the ninete...
A major movement in the history of insanity and asylums, and most particularly in the history of the...
Today, unlike in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few specialised institutions to c...
There is a wide and impressive historiography about British lunatic asylums in the nineteenth centu...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
This article seeks, through the medium of a case study of the York Lunatic Asylum scandal of 1813 to...
Victorian literature is rife with scenes of madness, with mental disorder functioning as everything ...
This thesis explores the complex ways in which mental illness was portrayed in Victorian fiction. It...
This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. A...