The Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

1. Introduction 2. the 'Trade in Lunacy' in its Historical and Legal Perspective 3. the Madhouse System: the Range and Development of its Provisions 4. the Private-Madhouse Proprietor 5. Some Contemporary Descriptions of Nineteenth-Century Private Licensed Houses 6. the Private Licensed Houses at Hook Norton and Witney 7. Aspects of Care of the Insane in Private Madhouses and the Outcome of Treatment 8. the Principal Abuses and Defects of the Private-Madhouse System: A Review of the Evidence 9. Summary and Conclusions