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Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815 - Commercialised Care for the Insane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815 - Commercialised Care for the Insane (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective
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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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