 | Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 Subjects: Humanities; Health and Welfare; Class and Work; Race and Empire; History; Medical Care; Social Groups; The British Diaspora; Modern History 1750-1945; History of Medicine; Imperial & Colonial History; Asylums; Pregnancy and Childbirth; Middle Classes; Plantation Colonialism; This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care. Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 |
