Univ. of Exeter, UK. This collection of essays provides an assessment of policies and practices devised to accommodate and manage a wide range of people with disabilities. Topics include politics of mental welfare, needs and desires in care of pauper lunatics, women in psychiatry, and more. For medical historians.
List of illustrations
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Notes on contributors
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Acknowledgements
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The politics of mental welfare: fresh perspectives on the history of institutional care for the mentally ill and disabled
1
(23)
Pamela Dale
Joseph Melling
Workhouse care of the insane, 1845--90
24
(22)
Elaine Murphy
Needs and desires in the care of pauper lunatics: admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852--72
46
(19)
Frank Crompton
'Buried alive by her friends': asylum narratives and the English governess, 1845--1914
65
(26)
Joseph Melling
Separatism and exclusion: women in psychiatry, 1900--50
91
(21)
Louise Westwood
Family, gender and class in psychiatric patient care during the 1930s: the 1930 Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital
112
(19)
David Pearce
The 'manufacture' of mental defectives: why the number of mental defectives increased in Scotland, 1857--1939
131
(23)
Matt Egan
Tension in the voluntary--statutory alliance: 'lay professionals' and the planning and delivery of mental deficiency services, 1917--45
154
(25)
Pamela Dale
'A satisfactory job is the best psychotherapist': employment and mental health, 1939--60
179
(21)
Vicky Long
Inside the walls of the hostel, 1940--74
200
(24)
John Welshman
Landmarks in the care of the mentally disordered
224
(1)
Select bibliography and further reading
225
(4)
Index
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