Disorder Contained

Disorder Contained

Mental Breakdown and the Modern Prison in England and Ireland, 1840 - 1900

Cox, Catherine; Marland, Hilary

Cambridge University Press

03/2022

320

Dura

Inglês

9781108834551

15 a 20 dias

593

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1. Introduction: Mental disorder and the modern prison in England and Ireland, 1840-1900; 2. The making of the modern prison system: reformation, separation and the mind, 1840-1860; 3. The prison medical officer: Deterrence, dual loyalty and the production of psychiatric expertise, 1860-1895; 4. Criminal or lunatic, prisoner of patient?: Confining insanity in the late nineteenth century; 5. 'He puts on symptoms of incoherence': Feigning and detecting insanity in nineteenth-century prisons; 6. Conclusion: The decline of the separate system, the prisoner patient and enduring legacies; Bibliography; Index.
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history of medicine; history of crime and punishment; mental health; prison studies; modern British and Irish history