The Experiences Of An Asylum Doctor
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The Experiences Of An Asylum Doctor
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Author : Montagu Lomax
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1921
The Experiences Of An Asylum Doctor written by Montagu Lomax and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1921 with Great Britain categories.
My Experiences In A Lunatic Asylum
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Author : Herman Charles Merivale
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-09-15
My Experiences In A Lunatic Asylum written by Herman Charles Merivale and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-15 with Law categories.
This is an enlightening memoir by Herman Merivale, where he narrated his time in one of England's countryside asylums in the 1860s. He was suffering from depression and was taken into care for treatment. Throughout the work, Merivale attacked over-treatment and suggested that being in the asylum during that period could drive someone into insanity even if they were completely normal.
The Experiences Of An Asylum Patient
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Author : Rachel Grant-Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
The Experiences Of An Asylum Patient written by Rachel Grant-Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1922 with Insane categories.
The Living Age
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1922
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Gerald And His Friend The Doctor A Record Of The Experiences Of Certain Young Men
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Author : Henry Solly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
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The Certification Of Insanity
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Author : Filippo Maria Sposini
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-30
The Certification Of Insanity written by Filippo Maria Sposini and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-30 with Science categories.
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.
Investigating The Body In The Victorian Asylum
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Author : Jennifer Wallis
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-11-14
Investigating The Body In The Victorian Asylum written by Jennifer Wallis and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-14 with History categories.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum takes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.
My Experiences In A Lunatic Asylum
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Author : A. Patient
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-08-04
My Experiences In A Lunatic Asylum written by A. Patient and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with categories.
Sitting at my desk as I am sitting now, with the comforting pipe and jug of beer by my side (deadly poisons to me, both of them, I have been often assured), and with a profound and grateful sense of extreme physical wellbeing, it is difficult for me to believe that not so long ago I was pronounced to be suffering at different times or all at once from epilepsy, partial paralysis, fits, delusions, suicidal and homicidal mania, 'voices' (a very professional and dangerous piece of humbug, of which I shall have more to say presently), 'visions' (Anglice, dreams), and the Lord knows what beside. As I was utterly prostrate from weakness, it reads like a dangerous complication; and I feel with pride that I may safely challenge Maria Jolly herself to the proof. It is something to have lived through all these maladies, and to be engaged in replenishing the welcome beer-glass, or, like the moralist of Thackeravian memory, Alive and merry at-year, Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine. But it is not too much to say, -and I speak again the wise words of my good friend and doctor, not my own, -that there are at this present moment languishing in these places many men who might well have been rescued, may be even now (and a mob attack, Bastille fashion, upon the whole body of private asylums would, to my mind, do as much good as harm), -men who might well have been spared and saved to do good work in the world, but who now lie as helpless as the enchanter at the feet of Vivien in the hollow oak- Lost to life and use, and name and fame."
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During The First World War
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Author : Claire Hilton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Civilian Lunatic Asylums During The First World War written by Claire Hilton and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with History categories.
This open access book explores the history of asylums and their civilian patients during the First World War, focusing on the effects of wartime austerity and deprivation on the provision of care. While a substantial body of literature on ‘shell shock’ exists, this study uncovers the mental wellbeing of civilians during the war. It provides the first comprehensive account of wartime asylums in London, challenging the commonly held view that changes in psychiatric care for civilians post-war were linked mainly to soldiers’ experiences and treatment. Drawing extensively on archival and published sources, this book examines the impact of medical, scientific, political, cultural and social change on civilian asylums. It compares four asylums in London, each distinct in terms of their priorities and the diversity of their patients. Revealing the histories of the 100,000 civilian patients who were institutionalised during the First World War, this book offers new insights into decision-making and prioritisation of healthcare in times of austerity, and the myriad factors which inform this.
Encyclopedia Of Asylum Therapeutics 1750 1950s
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Author : Mary de Young
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2015-02-24
Encyclopedia Of Asylum Therapeutics 1750 1950s written by Mary de Young and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-24 with Social Science categories.
The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. This work makes a case for why it should be. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment, and how they have linked extant medical knowledge, practitioner skill and the expectations of patients who experienced their own disorders in different ways. Asylum therapeutics during three centuries are detailed in encyclopedic entries, including "awakening" patients with firecrackers, easing brain congestion by bleeding, extracting teeth and excising parts of the colon, dousing with water, raising or lowering body temperature, shocking with electricity or toxins, and penetrating the brain with ice picks.