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This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the
debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks
at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the
impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in
a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be
mad and how, if at all, to care.
This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.
Related link: The Society for the Social History of Medicine eBook available with sample pages: 0203025784
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most
debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the
second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness
provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on
research drawn from both local and national material. Within a
social and cultural history of the English political and class
order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the significance of the
asylum in the decades following the creation of a national asylum
system in 1845. Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting
place for different social interests and aspirations, the text
asserts that this then marked a transition in provincial power
relations from the landed interests to the new coalition of
professional, commercial and populist groups, which gained control
of the public asylums at the end of the period surveyed.
The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most
debated and discussed issues in social history.
Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The
Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important
topic, based on research drawn from both local and national
material. Within a social and cultural history of the English
political and class order, it presents a fresh appraisal of the
significance of the asylum in the decades following the creation of
a national asylum system in 1845.
Arguing that the new asylums provided a meeting place for
different social interests and aspirations, the text asserts that
this then marked a transition in provincial power relations from
the landed interests to the new coalition of professional,
commercial and populist groups, which gained control of the public
asylums at the end of the period surveyed.
Directorial debut of Bill Forsyth following four unemployed
Glaswegian teenagers in the 1970s. When Ronnie (Robert Buchanan)
discovers that stainless steel sinks are worth a lot of money, he
recruits friends Wal (Billy Greenlees), Alec (Allan Love) and Vic
(John Hughes) to help him steal 90 of them from a nearby warehouse.
The leader of the gang hatches a complex scheme that requires Vic
and Wal to dress up as girls and use a sleeping potion, concocted
by chemistry expert Bobby (Derek Millar), to borrow a bakery
delivery truck for their cunning getaway. With Ronnie at the helm,
can the friends pull off the heist and obtain their small fortune?
In a corner of Britain untouched by the swinging spirit of the
sixties, an idealistic young probation officer is assigned to a new
case. His charge is a youth of cold, dead-eyed indifference, who
seems destined for little more than a life of anti-social behaviour
or, at worst, one of professional hooliganism. Three decades later,
women all over Britain are being slaughtered in their homes by a
killer so single-minded, so voraciously brutal, vile and
bloodthirsty, that he might have slipped out of an open portal from
Hades. Leading the investigation is Commander Alyson Kendal. Her
pursuit of the killer takes her and her team from the frantic hub
of Scotland Yard to the steaming jungles of Kampuchea, via the
arid, sun-baked plains of Uganda, where the killer has served under
Pol Pot and Amin, revelling in the terror and cruelty of their
respective regimes. Despite mounting evidence and strong leads, the
killer remains elusive and the public begins to lose faith in
Commander Kendal's abilities. She is no less harsh on herself and
knows she must find him, even if it means putting herself in the
deadliest danger.
Gregory's Girl is more than just a funny story. Its painfully
accurate observation of teenage romance avoids the traditional
assumptions which dominate most teenage fiction. Althought
carefully restructured to allow for a manageable stage
presentation, this version will give great pleasure to all those
who revelled in the film and introduce those who did not to the
delightful world of Gregory and his girls.
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