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Mental Disability in Victorian England

Mental Disability in Victorian England

The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

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Opis
This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of idiot asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it investigates the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came. By concentrating on the importance of patient-centred admission documents, and utilizing thebenefits of nominal record linkage to other, non-medical sources, David Wright extends research on the confinement of the insane to the networks of care and control that operated outside the walls of the asylum. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individualsin the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care. In this book, the family plays a significant role in the history of the asylum, initiating the identification of mental disability, participating in the certification process, mediating medical treatment, and facilitating discharge back into the community. By exploring the patterns of confinement to the Earlswood Asylum, Professor Wright reveals the diversity of theinsane population in Victorian England and the complexities of institutional committal in the nineteenth century. Moreover, by investigating the evolution of the Earlswood Asylum, it examines the history of the institution where John Langdon Down made his now famous identification of Mongolism,later renamed Downs Syndrome. He thus places the formulation of this archetype of mental disability within its historical, cultural, and scientific contexts.
Szczegóły produktu
OUP Oxford
85382
9780199246397
9780199246397

Opis

Rok wydania
2001
Numer wydania
1
Oprawa
twarda
Liczba stron
256
Wymiary (mm)
145 x 224
Waga (g)
411
  • Introduction; The State and Mental Disability; An Asylum for Idiots; Care in the Community; Institutionalizing Households; Idiots by Election; To Know No Weariness; The Golden Chain of Charity; The Educable Idiot; Downs Syndrome; The Danger of the Feeble-Minded; Conclusions; Select Bibliography; Index;
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