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London and Its Asylums, 1888-1914: Politics and Madness

London and Its Asylums, 1888-1914: Politics and Madness

Ellis, Robert

Paperback

Series: Mental Health in Historical Perspective

Medical ReferenceGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 3030444341
ISBN13: 9783030444341
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 22 2021
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book explores the impact that politics had on the management of mental health care at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 1888 and the introduction of the Local Government Act marked a turning point in which democratically elected bodies became responsible for the management of madness for the first time. With its focus on London in the period leading up to the First World War, it offers a new way to look at institutions and to consider their connections to wider issues that were facing the capital and the nation. The chapters that follow place London at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, it shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities.

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