Mental illness and learning disability since 1850 : finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom

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Mental illness and learning disability since 1850 : finding a place for mental disorder in the United Kingdom

edited by Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling

(Studies in the social history of medicine, 22)

Routledge, 2012

  • : pbk

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"First published 2006." "first issued in paperback 2012."--T.p.verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • The politics of mental welfare : fresh perspectives on the history of institutional care for the mentally ill and disabled / Pamela Dale and Joseph Melling
  • Workhouse care of the insane 1845-1890 / Elaine Murphy
  • Needs and desires in the care of pauper lunatics : admissions to Worcester Asylum, 1852-1872 / Frank Crompton
  • 'Buried alive by her friends' : asylum narratives and the English governess, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling
  • Separatism and exclusion : women in psychiatry, 1900-1950 / Louise Westwood
  • Family, gender and class in psychiatric patient care during the 1930s : the 1930 Mental Treatment Act and the Devon Mental Hospital / David Pearce
  • The 'manufacture' of mental defectives : why the number of mental defectives increased in Scotland, 1857-1939 / Matt Egan
  • Tension in the voluntary-statutory alliance : 'lay professionals' and the planning and delivery of mental deficiency services, 1917-1945 / Pamela Dale
  • 'A satisfactory job is the best psychotherapist' : employment and mental health, 1939-60 / Vicky Long
  • Inside the walls of the hostel, 1940-1974 / John Welshman
  • Landmarks in the care of the mentally disordered

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