Sex and seclusion, class, and custody : perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry /
Sex and seclusion, class, and custody : perspectives on gender and class in the history of British and Irish psychiatry /
edited by Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby.
- 1 online resource (338 pages) : illustrations.
- Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine Clio medica, 73 0045-7183 ; .
- Clio Medica 73. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Notes on Contributors / Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry / Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Scotland / Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales / ‘Embarrassed Circumstances’: Gender, Poverty, and Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years / Delusions of Gender?: Lay Identification and Clinical Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England / Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845–1914 / The Female Patient Experience in Two Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums / A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910 / ‘A Menace to the Good of Society’: Class, Fertility, and the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England / Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry: Shell-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder / Index of People and Places / Index of Subjects / Anne Digby -- Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby -- Robert Allan Houston -- Oonagh Walsh -- Pamela Michael -- Marjorie Levine-Clark -- David Wright -- Joseph Melling -- Anne Shepherd -- Lorraine Walsh -- Mark Jackson -- Joan Busfield -- Anne Digby -- Anne Digby.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally illustrations Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to this academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives.
9789004333598
10.1163/9789004333598 DOI
1800-1899
Sex differences (Psychology)--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental illness--Sex factors--Great Britain--19th century.
Social psychiatry--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy--History--Ireland--19th century.
Mental illness--Social aspects--History--Ireland--19th century.
Mental illness--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy.
Mental illness--Sex factors.
Mental illness--Social aspects.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Social psychiatry.
Great Britain.
Ireland.
History.
RC455.4.S45 / S49 2004
616.89
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Notes on Contributors / Introduction: Gender and Class in the Historiography of British and Irish Psychiatry / Class, Gender and Madness in Eighteenth-Century Scotland / Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland / Class, Gender and Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Wales / ‘Embarrassed Circumstances’: Gender, Poverty, and Insanity in the West Riding of England in the Early-Victorian Years / Delusions of Gender?: Lay Identification and Clinical Diagnosis of Insanity in Victorian England / Sex and Sensibility in Cultural History: The English Governess and the Lunatic Asylum, 1845–1914 / The Female Patient Experience in Two Late-Nineteenth-Century Surrey Asylums / A Class Apart? Admissions to the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum 1890-1910 / ‘A Menace to the Good of Society’: Class, Fertility, and the Feeble-Minded in Edwardian England / Class and Gender in Twentieth-Century British Psychiatry: Shell-Shock and Psychopathic Disorder / Index of People and Places / Index of Subjects / Anne Digby -- Jonathan Andrews and Anne Digby -- Robert Allan Houston -- Oonagh Walsh -- Pamela Michael -- Marjorie Levine-Clark -- David Wright -- Joseph Melling -- Anne Shepherd -- Lorraine Walsh -- Mark Jackson -- Joan Busfield -- Anne Digby -- Anne Digby.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally illustrations Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to this academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives.
9789004333598
10.1163/9789004333598 DOI
1800-1899
Sex differences (Psychology)--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental illness--Sex factors--Great Britain--19th century.
Social psychiatry--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy--History--Ireland--19th century.
Mental illness--Social aspects--History--Ireland--19th century.
Mental illness--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mental health policy.
Mental illness--Sex factors.
Mental illness--Social aspects.
Sex differences (Psychology)
Social psychiatry.
Great Britain.
Ireland.
History.
RC455.4.S45 / S49 2004
616.89