Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)

ISBN: 041518441X

Author: Forsythe, Bill

Condition: New

This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.