Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-349-95606-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 188 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2703 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, Steven

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Kinder- & Jugendpsychiatrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. 'Much below insects, and so little above sensitive plants': Constructing the Insane Child.- 3. Networks of Care: Asylum Children, Typology, and Experience.- 4. Looking Out from the Asylum: Deathbeds, Distribution, and Diversity.- 5. Beyond the Asylum: Dealing with Insane Children.- 6. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

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.