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Outside the walls of the asylum: the history of care in the community 1750-2000
- Editors:
- BARTLETT Peter, WRIGHT David
- Publisher:
- Athlone Press
- Publication year:
- 1999
- Pagination:
- 350p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Collection of essays offering an exploration of the interface between mental health problems and social institutions from a social history perspective. Includes chapters on: community care and its antecedents; care of the mentally incapacitated in Scotland during the eighteenth century; the domestic treatment of post natal depression in the nineteenth century; family, community and the lunatic in mid nineteenth century North Wales; the Scottish system of boarding out patients with mental health problems 1857-1913; domestic psychiatric regimes and the public sphere in early nineteenth century England; lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth century Ireland; assessments of crime, violence and welfare in admissions to the Devon Asylum 1845-1914; community care and 'mental deficiency' 1913-1945; community care in England and Wales 1948-1974; mental health policy, care in the community and political conflict in Northern Ireland; and psychiatric treatment in the 1980s and 1990s.