Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen : : The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era / / Andrew Scull.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Scull, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)

The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contrib...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
• 2. Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835
• 3. Phrenology and British Alienists, ca. 1825-1845
• 4. Moral Treatment Reconsidered: Some Sociological Comments on an Episode in the History of British Psychiatry
• 5. A Generous Confidence: Thomas Story Kirkbride's Philosophy of Asylum Construction and Management
• 6. The Discovery of the Asylum Revisited: Lunacy Reform in the New American Republic
• 7. The Treatment of Pauper Lunatics in Victorian England: The Case of Lancaster Asylum, 1816-1870
• 8. The Model of the Geel Lunatic Colony and Its Influence on the Nineteenth-Century Asylum System in Britain
• 9. The Paradox of Prudence: Mental Health in the Gilded Age
• 10. "A Hollow Square of Psychological Science": American Neurologists and Psychiatrists in Conflict
• 11. The Rejection of Psychological Approaches to Mental Disorder in Late Nineteenth-Century British Psychiatry
• 12. Victorian Women and Insanity
• Psychiatry and the Law
• 13. Liberty and Lunacy: The Victorians and Wrongful Confinement
• 14. The Boundary Between Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England
• Notes