Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody

Jonathan Andrews is a Senior Lecture in History, specialising in the History of Medicine, at Oxford Brookes. He has published widely in the history of psychiatry, including (jointly authored) A History of Betlem (Routledge, 1997), They're in the Trade of Lunacy (Wellcome Institute, 1998), (with Andrew Scull), Undertaker of the Mind (University of California Press, 2001) and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (University of California Press, 2003). Ann Digby is Research Professosr in History at Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely in the social history of medicine including Madness, Morality and Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Making a Medical Living (Cambridhge University Press, 1994) and The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948 (Oxford University Press, 1999).

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1 Jonathan ANDREWS and Anne DIGBY: Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry

2 Robert Allan HOUSTON: Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Scotland

3 Oonagh WALSH: Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

4 Pamela MICHAEL: Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales

5 Marjorie LEVINE-CLARK: ‘Embarrassed Circumstances’: Gender, Poverty, and Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years

6 David WRIGHT: Delusions of Gender?: Lay Identification and Clinical Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England

7 Joseph MELLING: Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914

8 Anne SHEPHERD: The Female Patient Experience in Two Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums

9 Lorraine WALSH: A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910

10 Mark JACKSON: ‘A Menace to the Good of Society’: Class, Fertility, and the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England

11 Joan BUSFIELD: Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry: Shell-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder



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