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Book The Asylum as Utopia  Psychology Revivals

Download or read book The Asylum as Utopia Psychology Revivals written by Andrew Scull and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and ideologically resonant description of the contrasting virtues of the reformed asylum, a hive of therapeutic activity under the benevolent but autocratic guidance and control of its medical superintendent, provided within a brief compass a strikingly attractive alternative vision of an apparently attainable utopia. Browne’s book thus provided important impetus to the efforts then under way to make the provision of county asylums compulsory, and towards the institution of a national system of asylum inspection and supervision. This edition, originally published in 1991 as part of the Tavistock Classics in the History of Psychiatry series, contains a lengthy introductory essay by Andrew Scull. Scull discusses the social context within which What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be came to be written, examines the impact of the book on the progress of lunacy reform, and places its author’s career in the larger framework of the development of Victorian psychiatry as an organised profession. Through an examination of Browne’s tenure as superintendent of the Crichton Royal Asylum in Dumfries, Scull compares the theory and practice of asylum care in the moral treatment era, revealing the remorseless processes through which such philanthropic foundations degenerated into more or less well-tended cemeteries for the still-breathing – institutions almost startlingly remote from Browne’s earlier visions of what they ought to be.

Book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons

Download or read book Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England  1750   1830

Download or read book Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England 1750 1830 written by Leonard Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asylums during the nineteenth century. This is an impressive volume which covers various areas including: the provincial lunatic hospitals managing the hospital managing the insane. This book will interest specialist historians as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local and regional studies.

Book From York Lunatic Asylum to Bootham Park Hospital

Download or read book From York Lunatic Asylum to Bootham Park Hospital written by Anne Digby and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 1986 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Historical Studies

Download or read book Historical Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes section "Reviews."

Book The Edinburgh Review

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Edinburgh Review  Or Critical Journal

Download or read book The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Most Solitary of Afflictions

Download or read book The Most Solitary of Afflictions written by Andrew Scull and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Scull studies the evolution of the treatment of lunacy in England, tracing transformations in social practices & beliefs, the development of institutional management of the mad, & exposing the contrasts between the expectations of asylum founders & the harsh realities of institutional life. Originally published: 1993.

Book For the Cause of Truth

Download or read book For the Cause of Truth written by J. Ann Hone and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1982 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books

Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Commissioners Appointed in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament Made and Passed in the 5th and 6th Years of King William the 4th  C 71  Intituled  An Act for Appointing Commissioners to Continue the Inquiries Concerning Charities in England and Wales  Until the First Day of March  1837

Download or read book Report of the Commissioners Appointed in Pursuance of an Act of Parliament Made and Passed in the 5th and 6th Years of King William the 4th C 71 Intituled An Act for Appointing Commissioners to Continue the Inquiries Concerning Charities in England and Wales Until the First Day of March 1837 written by Great Britain. Commissioners for Inquiring Concerning Charities and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons  and Evidence  Communicated to the Lords

Download or read book Reports from Select Committees of the House of Commons and Evidence Communicated to the Lords written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The National Union Catalog  Pre 1956 Imprints

Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Elizabeth Gaskell

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by John Chapple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.

Book Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain  c  1770 1820

Download or read book Emotions and the Making of Psychiatric Reform in Britain c 1770 1820 written by Mark Neuendorf and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-19 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ways which people navigated the emotions provoked by the mad in Britain across the long eighteenth century. Building upon recent advances in the historical study of emotions, it plots the evolution of attitudes towards insanity, and considers how shifting emotional norms influenced the development of a ‘humanitarian’ temperament, which drove the earliest movements for psychiatric reform in England and Scotland. Reacting to a ‘culture of sensibility’, which encouraged tears at the sight of tender suffering, early asylum reformers chose instead to express their humanity through unflinching resolve, charging into madhouses to contemplate scenes of misery usually hidden from public view, and confronting the authorities that enabled neglect to flourish. This intervention required careful emotional management, which is documented comprehensively here for the first time. Drawing upon a wide array of medical and literary sources, this book provides invaluable insights into pre-modern attitudes towards insanity.

Book Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue  Series II  Phase I  1816 1870

Download or read book Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Series II Phase I 1816 1870 written by Avero Publications Limited and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: