Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890-1914

L. Hide (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2014
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-32142-8 (ISBN)

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An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? This book provides a glimpse into the lives of patients and staff inside two London asylums at the turn of the twentieth century.

Louise Hide is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK where she completed her PhD and has been working as a researcher on a three-year Wellcome Trust funded project on the history of bodily pain. This is her second work of non-fiction.

Introduction 1. The Making of the Patient Population 2. Medical Officers 3. Attendants and Nurses 4. The Asylum Regime 5. From Asylum to Mental Hospital 6. Ward Life Conclusion

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2014
Zusatzinfo	XII, 240 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-137-32142-3 / 1137321423
ISBN-13	978-1-137-32142-8 / 9781137321428
Zustand	Neuware