Mental health care in modern England : the Norfolk Lunatic Asylum/St. Andrew's Hospital c. 1810-1998 /

This history of one particular place for "madness" covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution and in 1998 St Andrew's featured among the last of the large psychiatric hospit...

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Main Author: Cherry, Steven (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, N.Y. : Boydell Press, 2003.
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505 0 |a Asylums, insanity and locality -- Norfolk Lunatic Asylum : plans, problems and patients, 1814-43 -- A superintendent and 'work therapy', 1843-61 -- A medical superintendent, expansion and reform, 1861-87 -- 'Successful conversion' : a managed community, 1887-1915 -- Two histories : the Norfolk War Hospital, 1915-19 -- St. Andrew's Hospital, innovation and constraints, 1920-39 -- Wartime and post-war crises, 1939-48 -- 'Modern treatment carried out under difficulty', 1948-1964 -- Community care and the end of a community, 1964-1998. 
520 |a This history of one particular place for "madness" covers changing approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. The Norfolk Lunatic Asylum opened in 1814 as a pioneer county pauper institution and in 1998 St Andrew's featured among the last of the large psychiatric hospital closures. This history of one particular place for "madness" coverschanging approaches to insanity and treatments over two centuries. It draws extensively upon archival sources to examine the use of buildings and environments; the regimes of long-serving masters, superintendents and medical superintendents; the patients' own experiences; and the rationales, including cultural and gender issues, which informed therapies, relationships and hospital life. However, the contexts of national policies and economic constraints, professional and therapeutic developments, local economy and society, and current research findings are also acknowledged. Chapters dealing with the asylum's transformation as the 1915-19 Norfolk War Hospital and 1940-47 Emergency Hospital have disturbing revelations concerning wartime mental health care: similarly with the loss of local accountability and the experience of resource control under the National Health Service. Interviews with former staff and current personnel recall first-hand experiences of hospital life since the 1920s, the privations of wartime and the early NHS, hopes for new medications and conflicting views surrounding the closure of St Andrew's and thedelivery of community mental health care. STEVEN CHERRY is senior lecturer in history, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of East Anglia. 
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