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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Lunacy"”.
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Suicide, lunacy and the asylum in nineteenth-century England
Suicidal patients constituted a significant proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums. They formed a distinct patient category that required treatment and management strategies that were capable of frustrating their suicidal propensity and alleviating their …
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Lunacy, leprosy and legislation: medical practice and colonial control at the Cape, c. 1820-1831
… treatment and response to the conditions of 'lunacy' and leprosy within the 1820s. This final chapter uses the focus on these illnesses to act as case studies which underline a number of the themes and factors highlighted in the preceding chapters. As the paper progresses, the inability of …
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The 'manufacture' of mental defectives in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Scotland
… occurred within the context of the Poor Law and lunacy administrations, but an analysis of quantitative and qualitative source material shows that it was within the state education system that most of Scotland's mental defectives were initially identified and segregated from their peers. The …
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Mental health legislation in New Zealand from 1846 to date: A discourse analysis
… and their attempts to define what constituted lunacy, mental defect, and latterly mental health. None of those definitions have been totally satisfactory and demonstrate inconsistencies, as well as opposition to other laws. The thesis highlights how these laws have resulted in the taking away …
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Feeling Suicidal in England, c.1750-1850
… see their deaths through the lens of ‘lunacy’. Using 2,008 coroners’ inquests, this thesis explores how suicidality was affected by gender, age and social status. Complementing this with evidence from 217 suicide letters, as well as from other correspondence and diaries, it illuminates …
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Minding the medicine and medicalising the mind: Investigating the cultural and social history of Cardiff city mental hospital 1908 - 1930.
… beyond the hospital gates, the Commissioners for Lunacy and Board of Control, the Visiting Committee and the Board of Guardians for Cardiff. The second, the King Edward VII Hospital outpatient notes, give information<br/>about the foundation of an innovative approach to mental health care in the …
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De Insania
No one to whom the human race is subject xnorbus, so much moves our commit" reason than that which results from the privation of the strength of the mind it is evident, by which our inclinations are governed, and with whom relations with society are maintained. And truly it may be said that there …
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Physical Design Changes in the 19th Century English Asylums: A Study of Insane Asylums as Presented in ‘The Builder’ from 1843-1923
Under the umbrella of ‘Moral Treatment’ 19th century asylums were designed as a curative solution for lunatic patients. Many 19th century scholars considered architectural design elements as remedies for the lunatic population. Due to the presumed connection between architecture and patient cure, …