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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"lunatic asylum"”.
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The development of the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum and Mental Hospital
… and development of the Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum (later Mental Hospital) in the context of provision generally in England and Wales. From the early nineteenth century there was increasing interest in dealing with the plight of people with a mental illness including legislation to …
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"Fit objects for an asylum": The Hampshire County Lunatic Asylum and its patients, 1852-1899
… uses the records of the Hampshire County Asylum (HCA) between its<br/>opening in 1852 and the end of the nineteenth century to offer a different perspective<br/>on asylum history. Though it discusses the asylum in legal, medical and social welfare<br/>contexts it focuses on the experience …
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Traces, boundaries, surfaces: an investigation through art practice of institutional sites with particular reference to a former lunatic asylum
… of exclusion, a nineteenth-century county pauper lunatic asylum, in particular its methods of containment and coercion. It involves an initial unearthing of narratives relating to the site's histories, including its recent redevelopment as a gated residential community, and consideration of other …
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The politics of race and mental illness in the Post-Emancipation US South : Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane in historical perspective
… that whites institutionalized blacks in Central Lunatic Asylum for the Colored Insane (CLA) for non-mental health reasons as both a punishment for attempts at economic independence and in order to culturally censor them. While most modern mental health literature avoids discussing social control, …
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Weston State Hospital
… 1994. It was established as the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, and then called the West Virginia Hospital for the Insane from 1863 to 1915. The building was designed following the Kirkbride plan, which would allow for a pleasant and orderly place of refuge for 250 patients. Gradual overcrowding …
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Madness, Scalawagery, and Reconstruction: Dr. William M. Compton and Civil War Era Politics
… postwar politics. Using the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum and the career of its scalawag superintendent Dr. William M. Compton as lenses, this paper examines Civil War era Mississippi's political, social, and cultural history. In doing so, this thesis seeks to complicate the historical …
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Institutional reform in mental healthcare in Ireland: the establishment of the Ardee Mental Hospital, 1933, in its historical context.
… construction of an extensive network of district lunatic asylums in two phases: pre-Famine and post-Famine. The last major construction occurred in Portrane, County Dublin at the end of the nineteenth century. The Ardee Mental Hospital, County Louth, opened in November 1933. It was the only mental …
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'Who of us care to be seen assisting an old woman?': the institutional care of Ireland's elderly women, 1845 - 1908
… resided in Irish workhouses, charitable homes, lunatic asylums, prisons and infirmaries as some point between 1845 and 1908.<br/><br/>This ambitious study focuses primarily on gender differences, comparing and contrasting the institutional experiences of older women and men. However, it also …
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… Board of Eugenics and the superintendent of the asylum in Milledgeville, oversaw the majority of sterilizations in Georgia. He was undeterred by the revelation of Nazi eugenic practices after World War II. Sterilizations in Georgia went into decline once a new superintendent was appointed at …