The 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. © Taylor & Francis 2015. All rights reserved
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
This research uses the records of the Hampshire County Asylum (HCA) between its opening in 1852 and ...
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in ...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
Today, unlike in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few specialised institutions to c...
The 19th and early 20th centuries were, for English-speaking Western nations, marked by calamitous c...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
This book examines the historic lunatic asylum from an interdisciplinary perspective, employing meth...
Suicidal patients constituted a significant proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-centur...
While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about p...
In the nineteenth century, several institutions were established in the United States to house and c...
Background. This paper is based on a rich archive of 1151 letters by patients, who were admitted to ...
Following the mid-nineteenth century, every state in the expanding US founded at least one public in...
There is a wide and impressive historiography about British lunatic asylums in the nineteenth centu...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
This research uses the records of the Hampshire County Asylum (HCA) between its opening in 1852 and ...
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in ...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
Today, unlike in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there are few specialised institutions to c...
The 19th and early 20th centuries were, for English-speaking Western nations, marked by calamitous c...
Der vorliegende Beitrag diskutiert anhand einer statistischen Analyse der Unterlagen eines psychiatr...
This book examines the historic lunatic asylum from an interdisciplinary perspective, employing meth...
Suicidal patients constituted a significant proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-centur...
While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about p...
In the nineteenth century, several institutions were established in the United States to house and c...
Background. This paper is based on a rich archive of 1151 letters by patients, who were admitted to ...
Following the mid-nineteenth century, every state in the expanding US founded at least one public in...
There is a wide and impressive historiography about British lunatic asylums in the nineteenth centu...
Within the vast array of literature concerning the county lunatic asylums of the late nineteenth-cen...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
This research uses the records of the Hampshire County Asylum (HCA) between its opening in 1852 and ...
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