Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.
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Introduction 1. Caribbean Institutions in Context 2. The Early Lunatic Asylums 3. Scandal in Jamaica – The Kingston Lunatic Asylum 4. Reform – The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum 5. Colonial Asylums in Transition 6. Pathways to the Asylum 7. The Patient Challenge 8. The Colonial Asylum Regime Conclusion
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Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has written extensively on the history of provision for the insane in the 18th and 19th centuries. His publications include ‘Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody’: Public Lunatic Asylums in early Nineteenth-Century England (1999) and Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 (2007). He has worked in mental health services since 1973.
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