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Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane

Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane

Smith, Leonard

Hardcover

Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Medical ReferenceGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 3030416399
ISBN13: 9783030416393
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Jun 19 2020
Pages: 323
Weight: 1.55
Height: 1.06 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private 'madhouses'. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing presence in London and across the country during the long eighteenth century. Subsequent chapters deal with specific aspects in greater depth - the insane patients themselves, their characteristics, and the circumstances surrounding admissions; the madhouse proprietors, their business activities, personal attributes and professional qualifications or lack of them; changing treatment practices and the principles that informed them. Finally, the book explores conditions within the madhouses, which ranged from the relatively enlightened to the seriously defective, and reveals the experiences, concerns and protests of their many critics.

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