Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War : : A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe.

• Superior document: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Author: Hilton, Claire.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2020.; ©2021.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)

Table of Contents

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- CHAPTER1 Introduction: Civilians, Lunacy and the First World War -- Historiography of the Asylums -- From Broad Theories and Generalisations to Specifics and Diversity -- Shell Shock: Historiography and Change -- Placing the Patients Centre Stage -- Standards of Care and How to Measure Them -- The Language of the Asylums -- Other Methodological Considerations -- CHAPTER 2 Infrastructure: Rules, Walls, Obstacles and Opportunities -- Introduction -- The Lunacy Act 1890: "Red Tapism", Admissions, Finance, Reform and Change -- The Board of Control, Asylum Leadership and Their Challenges -- Special Care? Service Patients and Other Groups -- Creating Military Hospitals from Asylums -- Reconstruction -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 3 Certified Insane: Concepts and Practices -- Introduction: Lily's Story -- Air Raids and Other War Stresses in the Community -- Understanding Mental Disorders: Classification -- Researching Mental Conditions -- GPI: Clinical Challenge, Research and Cautious Responses to Innovation -- Nature and Nurture: Biological, Social and Psychological -- Treatments: Moral and Medical, Restraint and Seclusion -- Recovery, Convalescence and Discharge -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 4 Personnel: Staffing the Asylums and Serving the Colours -- Introduction -- The Staff on the Asylum Front Line -- Hierarchies -- Gender, Status and Staff Education -- Medical Staff: Doctors and Dilemmas -- Serving the Colours -- Towards the End of the War -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 5 Food, Farm and Fuel: An Inequitable Supply Chain -- Introduction -- The National Food Context -- Asylum Diets: Supply and Demand -- Asylum Diets and Nutritional Understanding -- Communal Eating for Patients and Staff.

Food Distribution in the Asylums -- Asylum Farms -- Fuel -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 6 Patients and Their Daily Life -- Introduction -- Seeking the Patients' View -- In-Patient Life -- Clothing -- Cleanliness -- Night Times -- Patients' Links with People Outside -- Patients at Work -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 7 Difficult Diseases: Tuberculosis and Other Infections -- Introduction: Elsie and Mohammed -- Death Rates and Post-mortems -- Tuberculosis -- Tuberculosis at Claybury and Hanwell: Case Studies -- Other Infections: Dysentery, Typhoid and Influenza -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 8 Accidents, Injuries, Escapes and Suicides -- Introduction: A Culture of Kindness or Harm? -- Abuse in the Asylums: Allegations and Outcomes -- Broken Bones and Cauliflower Ears: Facts and Fictions -- Escapes -- Suicides -- Conclusions -- CHAPTER 9 Shackles and Chains: Some Concluding Thoughts -- Then and Now -- Leadership: Attitudes and Standards -- Patients, Outcomes and Austerity -- Making Change -- Final Word -- Index.