The Confinement of the Insane : International Perspectives, 1800-1965 (Hardcover)

Introduction Roy Porter; 1. Insanity, institutions and society: the case of Robben Island Lunatic Asylum, 1846?1910 Harriet Deacon; 2. The confinement of the insane in Switzerland, 1900?70: Cery and Bel-Air asylums Jacques Gasser and Genevieve Heller; 3. Family strategies and medical power: 'voluntary' committal in a Parisian asylum, 1876?1914 Patricia E. Prestwich; 4. The confinement of the insane in Victorian Canada: the Hamilton and Toronto asylums, c. 1861?91 David Wright, James Moran and Sean Gouglas; 5. Passage to the asylum: the role of the police in committals of the insane in Victoria, Australia, 1848?1900 Catharine Coleborne; 6. The 'Wittenauer Heilstatten' in Berlin: a case record study of psychiatric patients in Germany, 1919?60 Andrea Dorries and Thomas Beddies; 7. Curative asylum, custodial hospital: the South Carolina lunatic asylum and state hospital, 1828?1920 Peter McCandless; 8. The state, family, and the insane in Japan, 1900?45 Akihito Suzuki; 9. The limits of psychiatric reform in Argentina, 1890?1946 Jonathan D. Ablard; 10. Becoming mad in revolutionary Mexico: mentally ill patients at the General Insane Asylum, Mexico, 1910?30 Cristina Rivera-Garza; 11. Psychiatry and confinement in India Sanjeev Jain; 12. Confinements and colonialism in Nigeria Jonathan Sadowsky; 13. 'Ireland's crowded madhouses': the institutional confinement of the insane in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland Elizabeth Malcolm; 14. The administration of insanity in England, 1800?70 Elaine Murphy.