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.
| ISBN: | 9781138868243 |
| Publication date: | 2nd December 2014 |
| Author: | Bill Forsythe |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine |
| Genres: |
Disability: social aspects Mental health services Social welfare and social services Social and cultural history |