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1. Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850

   Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom

   Edited by Pamela Dale, Joseph Melling

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   Taking forward the debate on the role and power of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. The Politics of Madness

   The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845–1914

   By Joseph Melling, Bill Forsythe

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   The discovery and treatment of insanity remains one of the most debated and discussed issues in social history. Focusing on the second half of the nineteenth century, The Politics of Madness provides a new perspective on this important topic, based on research drawn from both local and national...

   Published March 14th 2006 by Routledge
3. Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

   Edited by Bill Forsythe, Joseph Melling

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine

   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...

   Published March 31st 1999 by Routledge