Private madhouses in England, 1640-1815 : commercialised care for the insane /

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 institutionalized because of insa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Smith, Leonard D., 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2020].
Series:	Mental health in historical perspective.
Subjects:	Psychiatric hospitals > England > History. Hospitals, Psychiatric > history. Hospitals, Private > history. Mentally Ill Persons > history. History, 17th Century. History, 18th Century. History, 19th Century. England.

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
The Rise of the Private Madhouse
2 Houses for the Distracted, 1600-1700
3 Madhouses in the Market-Place, 1701-1774
4 An Expanding Madhouse Network, 1775-1815
5 Madhouse Patients
6 Madhouse Entrepreneurs
7 Therapeutics of the Madhouse
8 Conditions and Controversy
9 Conclusion
Insanity and Enterprise