Table of Contents: The confinement of the insane :

Other Authors:	Porter, Roy,
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:	Psychiatric hospitals > History > 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals > History > 20th century. Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > 19th century. > History Mentally ill > Commitment and detention > 20th century. Commitment of Mentally Ill > history. Cross-Cultural Comparison. History, 19th Century. History, 20th Century. Hospitals, Psychiatric > history. PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY > Mental Illness. MEDICAL > Mental Health. Mentally ill > Commitment and detention.
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Table of Contents:

Insanity, institutions and society : the case of the Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846-1910 / Harriet Deacon
The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900-1970 : Cery (Vaud) and Bel-Air (Geneva) asylums / Jacques Gasser and Geneviève Heller
Family strategies and medical power : 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876-1914 / Patricia E. Prestwich
The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada : the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861-1891 / David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas
Passage to the asylum : the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848-1900 / Catharine Coleborne
The Wittenauer Heilstätten in Berlin : a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919-1960 / Andrea Dörries and Thomas Beddies
Curative asylum, custodial hospital : the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum and State Hospital, 1828-1920 / Peter McCandless
The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900-1945 / Akihito Suzuki
The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890-1946 / Jonathan D. Ablard
Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico : mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910-1930 / Cristina Rivera-Garza
Psychiatry and confinement in India / Sanjeev Jain
Confinement and colonialism in Nigeria / Jonathan Sadowsky
'Ireland's crowded madhouses' : the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland / Elizabeth Malcolm
The administration of insanity in England 1800 to 1870 / Elaine Murphy.