A History Of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals
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A History Of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals
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Author : Ed Brandon
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-09-21
A History Of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals written by Ed Brandon and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with Social Science categories.
From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ‘mad’ locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived ‘epidemic’ of madness take hold, with ‘county asylums’ seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary. The county of Middlesex – to which London once belonged – would build and open three huge county asylums from 1831, and when London became its own county in 1889 it would adopt all three and go on to build or run another eight such immense institutions. Each operated much like a self-contained town; home to thousands and often incorporating its own railway, laundries, farms, gardens, kitchens, ballroom, sports pitches, surgeries, wards, cells, chapel, mortuary, and more, in order to ensure the patients never needed to leave the asylum’s grounds. Between them, at their peak London’s eleven county asylums were home to around 25,000 patients and thousands more staff, and dominated the physical landscape as well as the public imagination from the 1830s right up to the 1990s. Several gained a legacy which lasted even beyond their closure, as their hulking, abandoned forms sat in overgrown sites around London, refusing to be forgotten and continuing to attract the attention of those with both curious and nefarious motives. Hanwell (St Bernard’s), Colney Hatch (Friern), Banstead, Cane Hill, Claybury, Bexley, Manor, Horton, St Ebba’s, Long Grove, and West Park went from being known as ‘county lunatic asylums’ to ‘mental hospitals’ and beyond. Reflecting on both the positive and negative aspects of their long and storied histories from their planning and construction to the treatments and regimes adopted at each, the lives of patients and staff through to their use during wartime, and the modernisation and changes of the 20th century, this book documents their stories from their opening up to their eventual closure, abandonment, redevelopment, or destruction.
A History Of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals
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Author : Ed Brandon
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2022-09-21
A History Of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals written by Ed Brandon and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-21 with History categories.
From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ‘mad’ locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived ‘epidemic’ of madness take hold, with ‘county asylums’ seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary. The county of Middlesex – to which London once belonged – would build and open three huge county asylums from 1831, and when London became its own county in 1889 it would adopt all three and go on to build or run another eight such immense institutions. Each operated much like a self-contained town; home to thousands and often incorporating its own railway, laundries, farms, gardens, kitchens, ballroom, sports pitches, surgeries, wards, cells, chapel, mortuary, and more, in order to ensure the patients never needed to leave the asylum’s grounds. Between them, at their peak London’s eleven county asylums were home to around 25,000 patients and thousands more staff, and dominated the physical landscape as well as the public imagination from the 1830s right up to the 1990s. Several gained a legacy which lasted even beyond their closure, as their hulking, abandoned forms sat in overgrown sites around London, refusing to be forgotten and continuing to attract the attention of those with both curious and nefarious motives. Hanwell (St Bernard’s), Colney Hatch (Friern), Banstead, Cane Hill, Claybury, Bexley, Manor, Horton, St Ebba’s, Long Grove, and West Park went from being known as ‘county lunatic asylums’ to ‘mental hospitals’ and beyond. Reflecting on both the positive and negative aspects of their long and storied histories from their planning and construction to the treatments and regimes adopted at each, the lives of patients and staff through to their use during wartime, and the modernisation and changes of the 20th century, this book documents their stories from their opening up to their eventual closure, abandonment, redevelopment, or destruction.
Asylum
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Author : Mark Davis
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2014-07-15
Asylum written by Mark Davis and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-15 with History categories.
A photographic journey into the Pauper Lunatic Asylums of Victorian Great Britain
A History Of The Mental Health Services
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Author : Kathleen Jones
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-07-28
A History Of The Mental Health Services written by Kathleen Jones and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-28 with Social Science categories.
First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Social Policy, rewriting the material from the end of the Second World War to the passing of the Mental Health Act 1959, and adding a new section which runs from 1959 to the Social Services Act 1970. The story starts with the first legislative mention of the ‘furiously and dangerously mad’ as a class for whom some treatment should be provided, traces the development of reform and experiment in the nineteenth century, and the creation of the asylum system, and ends in the age of Goffman and Laing and Szasz with the virtual disappearance of the system. The book will be of interest to students of mental health, sociology, social policy, health policy and law.
Mental Health Care In Modern England
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Author : Steven Cherry
language : en
Publisher: Boydell Press
Release Date : 2003
Mental Health Care In Modern England written by Steven Cherry and has been published by Boydell Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Psychology categories.
Opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution, the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum, later St Andrew's Hospital, provided psychiatric care until 1998. It's history covers two centuries of different approaches to mental health care, reorganisations & disturbing events during times of national emergency.
London And Its Asylums 1888 1914
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Author : Robert Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-05-20
London And Its Asylums 1888 1914 written by Robert Ellis and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with History categories.
This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issues that were facing the capital and the nation. The chapters that follow place London at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, it shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities.
Gender And Class In English Asylums 1890 1914
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Author : L. Hide
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-01
Gender And Class In English Asylums 1890 1914 written by L. Hide and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with History categories.
An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? This book provides a glimpse into the lives of patients and staff inside two London asylums at the turn of the twentieth century.
Lunatic Hospitals In Georgian England 1750 1830
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Author : Leonard Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-18
Lunatic Hospitals In Georgian England 1750 1830 written by Leonard Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-18 with History categories.
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions. These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asylums during the nineteenth century. This is an impressive volume which covers various areas including: the provincial lunatic hospitals managing the hospital managing the insane. This book will interest specialist historians as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local and regional studies.
Insanity And The Lunatic Asylum In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Thomas Knowles
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
Insanity And The Lunatic Asylum In The Nineteenth Century written by Thomas Knowles and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Business & Economics categories.
The nineteenth-century asylum was the scene of both terrible abuses and significant advancements in treatment and care. The essays in this collection look at the asylum from the perspective of the place itself – its architecture, funding and purpose – and at the experience of those who were sent there.
Outside The Walls Of The Asylum
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Author : Peter Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 1999-10-01
Outside The Walls Of The Asylum written by Peter Bartlett and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-10-01 with History categories.
This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners.