Add to ORKGAbstract Based upon the analysis of three Lancashire asylums at Lancaster, Prestwich and Rainhill, this paper examines the evolution of the lunatic asylum model from 1845 to 1914. It first focuses on the linear narratives of asylum treatment in the mid-nineteenth century, hinged upon a teleological rationale equating confinement in asylums with the emancipation of the insane. It goes on to examine the elaboration of therapeutic landscapes across the three asylums, with the erection of the asy..
This article seeks, through the medium of a case study of the York Lunatic Asylum scandal of 1813 to...
Following the implementation of legislation in 1845 which required every county and borough througho...
In the large, expanding Victorian asylums with a small number of medical staff, ruled by a powerful ...
Cette intervention s'inscrit dans le cadre des travaux du séminaire mensuel Aliénation/Emancipation ...
From the mid-eighteenth century the lunatic asylum landscape has been recognised as playing a key ro...
A major movement in the history of insanity and asylums, and most particularly in the history of the...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
This thesis examines the history of Lancaster Asylum, Lancashire’s first county asylum, from 1840 to...
The nineteenth century witnessed a continuous growth in both the number of lunatic asylums, and in ...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
In 1868, an article in the Yorkshire Post about the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum drew attention...
This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key...
This thesis looks into the later ‘Asylum Age’ in Scotland, concentrating on the legislation and cons...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
This thesis will explore the intersectional construction of the British asylum network in the ninete...
This article seeks, through the medium of a case study of the York Lunatic Asylum scandal of 1813 to...
Following the implementation of legislation in 1845 which required every county and borough througho...
In the large, expanding Victorian asylums with a small number of medical staff, ruled by a powerful ...
Cette intervention s'inscrit dans le cadre des travaux du séminaire mensuel Aliénation/Emancipation ...
From the mid-eighteenth century the lunatic asylum landscape has been recognised as playing a key ro...
A major movement in the history of insanity and asylums, and most particularly in the history of the...
Interest surrounding the Victorian county asylum network and its treatment of mental illness has bee...
This thesis examines the history of Lancaster Asylum, Lancashire’s first county asylum, from 1840 to...
The nineteenth century witnessed a continuous growth in both the number of lunatic asylums, and in ...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
In 1868, an article in the Yorkshire Post about the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum drew attention...
This thesis was a sociological, historically informed, study of the interactions between three key...
This thesis looks into the later ‘Asylum Age’ in Scotland, concentrating on the legislation and cons...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
This thesis will explore the intersectional construction of the British asylum network in the ninete...
This article seeks, through the medium of a case study of the York Lunatic Asylum scandal of 1813 to...
Following the implementation of legislation in 1845 which required every county and borough througho...
In the large, expanding Victorian asylums with a small number of medical staff, ruled by a powerful ...