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Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914Louise Hide.
Author:	Hide, Louise.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014.
Description:	256 p. :8 b&w, ill., 4.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Notes:	Epublication based on: 9781137321428, 2014.
Subject:	AsylumsHistory20th centuryEngland
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137321431 (electronic bk.) :

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914
Hide, Louise.

Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914[electronic resource] /Louise Hide. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 256 p. :8 b&w, ill., 4.

Electronic book text.

Introduction 1. The Making of the Patient Population 2. Medical Officers 3. Attendants and Nurses 4. The Asylum Regime 5. From Asylum to Mental Hospital 6. Ward Life Conclusion.

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An unprecedented number of people were sent to 'lunatic asylums' in the nineteenth century. But what was life like inside? How was order maintained? And why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? This book provides a glimpse into the lives of patients and staff inside two London asylums at the turn of the twentieth century.The Victorian period saw an unprecedented rise in the number of people who were committed to 'lunatic asylums'. We know something of why this happened, but far less about what life was like inside these institutions. Louise Hide explores the influence of wider socio-economic change and new medical theories on the practices and processes, routines and rhythms of the asylum as it began its transition to the mental hospital. What made the patient admission process so traumatic? How did attendants respond to the arrival of female nurses on male wards? Why were so many doctors on the verge of a breakdown themselves? In this meticulously researched and intriguing work, Hide has opened a chink through which to glimpse the lives of patients, doctors and nursing staff inside two vast London county asylums during the turn of the twentieth century.

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Louise Hide is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK where she completed her PhD and has been working as a researcher on a three-year Wellcome Trust funded project on the history of bodily pain. This is her second work of non-fiction.

ISBN: 1137321431 (electronic bk.) :£60.00Subjects--Topical Terms:

689886
Asylums
--History--England--20th century

LC Class. No.: HV245 / .H47 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 362.230942109041

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