Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780415184410)

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.

Author: Bill Forsythe
ISBN-10: 041518441X
ISBN-13: 9780415184410
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1999
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.64w x 1.17d