Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Insanity, institutions and society: the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846–1910
- 2 The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900–1970: Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums
- 3 Family strategies and medical power: ‘voluntary’ committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876–1914
- 4 The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada: the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861–1891
- 5 Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848–1900
- 6 The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin: a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919–1960
- 7 Curative asylum, custodial hospital: the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828–1920
- 8 The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900–1945
- 9 The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890–1946
- 10 Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico: mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910–1930
- 11 Psychiatry and confinement in India
- 12 Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria
- 13 ‘Ireland's crowded madhouses’: the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland
- 14 The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 July 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Insanity, institutions and society: the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846–1910
- 2 The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900–1970: Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums
- 3 Family strategies and medical power: ‘voluntary’ committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876–1914
- 4 The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada: the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861–1891
- 5 Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848–1900
- 6 The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin: a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919–1960
- 7 Curative asylum, custodial hospital: the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828–1920
- 8 The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900–1945
- 9 The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890–1946
- 10 Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico: mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910–1930
- 11 Psychiatry and confinement in India
- 12 Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria
- 13 ‘Ireland's crowded madhouses’: the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland
- 14 The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Confinement of the InsaneInternational Perspectives, 1800–1965, pp. xvii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003