ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |1 pages
PART I The English experience of the county lunatic asylum
chapter 2|15 pages
The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808-1845
chapter 3|20 pages
The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance
part |1 pages
PART II Therapeutic regimes in the nineteenth century
part |1 pages
PART III On the edge: the English model and national peripheries
part |1 pages
PART IV The colonial vision
part |1 pages
PART V Reflections