Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 43,64 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385211549
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Peter Bartlett
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 1999-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0718501047
Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.
Author : William F. Bynum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Psychiatric hospitals
ISBN : 9780415323840
Author : Jennifer Wallis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 2017-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 3319567144
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book explores how the body was investigated in the late nineteenth-century asylum in Britain. As more and more Victorian asylum doctors looked to the bodily fabric to reveal the ‘truth’ of mental disease, a whole host of techniques and technologies were brought to bear upon the patient's body. These practices encompassed the clinical and the pathological, from testing the patient's reflexes to dissecting the brain. Investigating the Body in the Victorian Asylum takes a unique approach to the topic, conducting a chapter-by-chapter dissection of the body. It considers how asylum doctors viewed and investigated the skin, muscles, bones, brain, and bodily fluids. The book demonstrates the importance of the body in nineteenth-century psychiatry as well as how the asylum functioned as a site of research, and will be of value to historians of psychiatry, the body, and scientific practice.
Author : Daniel Hack Tuke
Publisher : London : K. Paul, Trench
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Insane
ISBN :
Author : Virgil M. Harris
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Ancient, Curious, and Famous Wills" by Virgil M. Harris. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Thomas Normington
Publisher :
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 20,37 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Railroads
ISBN :
Author : Mrs. Basil Holmes
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 36,93 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN :
Author : Eric A. Willats
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,60 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Islington (London, England)
ISBN : 9780951187104
Author : Susan D. Pennybacker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1134959958
The London County Council was a the world's largest municipal government and a laboratory for social experimentation before the Great War. It sought to master the problems of metropolitan amelioration, political economy and public culture. Pennybacker's social history tests the vision of London Progressivism against its practitioners' accomplishments. She argues that the historical memory of the hopes inspired by LCC achievement and the disillusions spawned by failure, are potent forces in today's deeply ambivalent responses to metropolitan politics in London. The `new women', bohemian London, scandal in the building industry, midwifery, lodging houses, children's provision and the music hall were all provocative issues in LCC work. Their story richly evokes life in the turn-of-the-century metropolis and illustrates the complexities of `municipal socialism'.
