Name: Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane (en Inglés)
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Author: Smith, Leonard
ISBN: 9783030416423

portada Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Leonard Smith

Editorial

Palgrave MacMillan

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

323

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.0 x 14.8 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.41 kg.

ISBN13

9783030416423

Categorías

Reino unido
Historia de la medicina
Historia de europa
Historia social y cultural

Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane (en Inglés)

Leonard Smith (Autor) · Palgrave MacMillan · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane (en Inglés)"

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private 'madhouses'. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to the seriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.