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Madness at home : the psychiatrist, the patient, and the family in England, 1820-1860 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suzuki, Akihito, 1963-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2006]
Series:Medicine and society ; 13.
Subjects:
Mentally ill > Care > England > History > 19th century.
Mentally ill > Home care > England > History > 19th century.
Mentally ill > England > Family relationships > History > 19th century.
Mental health laws > England > History > 19th century.
Psychiatry > England > History > 19th century.
England.
Psychiatry > history.
History, 19th Century.
Mental Disorders > history.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Commissions of lunacy: background, sources, and content
  • The structure of psychiatric practice
  • The problems of liberty and property
  • Managing lunatics within the domestic sphere
  • Destabilizing the domestic psychiatric regime
  • Public authorities and the ambiguities of the lunatic at home.