Leonard Smith 
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815 [PDF ebook] 
Commercialised Care for the Insane

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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 theseriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.  

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1 Introduction – The Rise of the Private Madhouse.- 2 Houses for the Distracted, 1600-1700.- 3 Madhouses in the Market-Place, 1701-1774.- 4 An Expanding Madhouse Network, 1775-1815.- 5 Madhouse Patients.- 6 Madhouse Entrepreneurs.- 7 Therapeutics of the Madhouse.- 8 Conditions and Controversy.- 9 Conclusion – Insanity and Enterprise.- 

Sobre el autor

Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK. His publications include ‘Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody’: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England (1999), Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (2007), and Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914 (2014).     

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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 323 ● ISBN 9783030416409 ● Tamaño de archivo 7.6 MB ● Editorial Springer International Publishing ● Ciudad Cham ● País CH ● Publicado 2020 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7477472 ● Protección de copia DRM social

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