Sex And Seclusion, Class And Custody (73) (Clio Medica) - Hardcover

Andrews

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9042011866 ISBN 13: 9789042011861

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2003

Synopsis

This collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Leading scholars in the field working on a variety of geographical, temporal, socio-cultural, economic and political contexts, show how class and gender have historically affected and conditioned the thinking, language, and processes according to which society identified and responded to the mentally ill. Contributors to this volume focus on both class and gender and thus are able to explore their interaction, whereas previous publications addressed class or gender incidentally, partially, or in isolation. By adopting this dual focus as its unifying theme, the volume is able to supply new insights into such interesting topics as patient careers, the relationship between lay and professional knowledge of insanity, the boundaries of professional power, and the creation of psychiatric knowledge. Particularly useful to student readers (and to those new to the academic field) is a substantive and accessible introduction to existing scholarship in the field, which signposts the ways in which this collection challenges, adjusts and extends previous perspectives.

About this title

About the Author

Jonathan Andrews is a Senior Lecture in History, specialising in the History of Medicine, at Oxford Brookes. He has published widely in the history of psychiatry, including (jointly authored) A History of Betlem (Routledge, 1997), They're in the Trade of Lunacy (Wellcome Institute, 1998), (with Andrew Scull), Undertaker of the Mind (University of California Press, 2001) and Customers and Patrons of the Mad Trade (University of California Press, 2003).

Ann Digby is Research Professosr in History at Oxford Brookes University. She has published widely in the social history of medicine including Madness, Morality and Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 1985), Making a Medical Living (Cambridhge University Press, 1994) and The Evolution of British General Practice, 1850-1948 (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9042011866
• ISBN 13: 9789042011861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 348