The Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century : Volume I: Lunatic Asylums

King, Steven (EDT)/ Taylor, Steven (EDT)

Routledge（2026/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 377 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032155258

Full Description

This volume is concerned with lunacy in the nineteenth century and the institutions for the control and containment of the insane. Besides some of the archives for these institutions, the sources also contain archival and primary sources related with legislation, medicine, the history of insanity, lunatic asylums for the pauper, for the well-off, for the criminal and for children in the nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history of medicine, the history of sexuality and the history of insanity in the long nineteenth century, as well as with the history of institutions to contain and control the mentally insane and the sexually deviant.

Contents

Volume 1. Lunatic Asylums

General Introduction

Volume 1 Introduction

Part 1. Letters regarding the 'mad poor' from families, officials, advocates, and poor writers under the Old Poor Law, 1800-1834

Part 2. Vestry Minutes and Vestry Correspondence, 1800-1835

Part 3. Letters regarding the 'mad poor' from families, officials, advocates, and poor writers under the New Poor Law, 1834-1906

Part 4. Billington Private Asylum Records

Part 5. Leicester Borough Asylum: Records of the Superintendent

Part 6. Leicester Borough Asylum: Records associated with Medical Staff

Part 7. Leicester Borough Asylum: Patient Records

Part 8. The New Poor Law: Certificates to Detain Lunatics in the Workhouse

Index