Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907

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Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

ISBN: 1349956066
ISBN 13: 9781349956067
Autor: Taylor, Steven
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xv, 188 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.06.2018
Auflage: 1/2017
Produktform: Kartoniert
Einband: KT

This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a ‘mixed economy of care’ by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.

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Steven J. Taylor is Research Assistant at the Centre for Health Histories at the University of Huddersfield and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK. His work has been published in Family and Community History, History of Psychiatry, and History.

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