Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901
written by David Wright, 1965- (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001, originally published 2001), 258 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the 'insane' population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.
- Field of Interest
- Disability Studies
- Author
- David Wright, 1965-
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2001 David Wright
- Content Type
- Book
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Original Publication Date
- 2001
- Page Count
- 258
- Publication Year
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place Published / Released
- New York, NY
- Subject
- Disability Studies, Diversity, Race, Class, Sexuality & Gender, Advocacy and Rights, Hospitals and medical centers, Mental health treatments, Disabled persons, Mental illnesses, Gender, Class, Economic status, Raza, Clase, Sexualidad y Genero, Raça, Classe, Sexualidade e Gênero, Sexuality, Rights and advocacy, Social movements, Abogacía y Derechos, Advocacia e Direitos, Royal Earlswood Hospital, England, The Gilded Age & Progressive Era (1876–1913), Expansion & Sectionalism (1829–1859)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Gender, Class, Economic status, Raza, Clase, Sexualidad y Genero, Raça, Classe, Sexualidade e Gênero, Sexuality, Rights and advocacy, Social movements, Abogacía y Derechos, Advocacia e Direitos
