The History Of Bethlem
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Author |
: Jonathan Andrews |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 758 |
Release |
: 2013-06-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136098529 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136098526 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Bethlem by : Jonathan Andrews
Bethlem Hospital, popularly known as "Bedlam", is a unique institution. Now seven hundred and fifty years old, it has been continuously involved in the care of the mentally ill in London since at least the 1400s. As such it has a strong claim to be the oldest foundation in Europe with an unbroken history of sheltering and treating the mentally disturbed. During this time, Bethlem has transcended locality to become not only a national and international institution, but in many ways, a cultural and literary myth. The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment by distinguished authors, including Asa Briggs and Roy Porter. Based upon extensive research of the hospital's archives, the book looks at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions of London and Britain, and provides a long overdue re-evaluation of its place in the history of psychiatry.
Author |
: Jonathan Andrews |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 772 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415017734 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415017732 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The History of Bethlem by : Jonathan Andrews
The History of Bethlem is a scholarly history of this key establishment, looking at Bethlem's role within the caring institutions in the context of the history of Britain, London, hospitals and psychiatry.
Author |
: Paul Chambers |
Publisher |
: The History Press |
Total Pages |
: 311 |
Release |
: 2019-11-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780750991865 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0750991860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bedlam by : Paul Chambers
Bethlem Hospital is the oldest mental institution in the world, to many famously known as ' Bedlam': a chaotic madhouse that brutalised its patients. Paul Chambers explores the 800-year history of Bethlem and reveals fascinating details of its ambivalent relationship with London and its inhabitants, the life and times of the hospital's more famous patients, and the rise of a powerful reform movement to tackle the institution's notorious policies. Here the whole story of Bethlem Hospital is laid bare to a new audience, charting its well-intended beginnings to its final disgrace and reform.
Author |
: Mike Jay |
Publisher |
: Thames & Hudson |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2016-09-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780500773628 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0500773629 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis This Way Madness Lies by : Mike Jay
Is mental illness or madness at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain. Moving and sometimes provocative illustrations and photographs, sourced from the Wellcome Collection's extensive archives and the archives of mental institutions in Europe and the U.S., illuminate and reinforce the compelling narrative, while extensive gallery sections present revealing and thought-provoking artworks by asylum patients and other artists from each era of the institution and beyond.
Author |
: Catharine Arnold |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2009-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781847390004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1847390005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bedlam by : Catharine Arnold
Originally published: London: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
Author |
: David Russell |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 226 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1873853394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781873853399 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Scenes from Bedlam by : David Russell
In 1997, the Bethlam Royal Hospital will be 750 years old. This text presents glimpses of life in Bethlam Royal Hospital, Britain's longest-established mental institution. It offers an insight into the changes made to the treatment of the mentally disordered.
Author |
: Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 556 |
Release |
: 1914 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105004926387 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Story of Bethlehem Hospital from Its Foundation in 1247 by : Edward Geoffrey O'Donoghue
Author |
: Kenneth S. Jackson |
Publisher |
: University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0874138906 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780874138900 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Separate Theaters by : Kenneth S. Jackson
"This specifically "literary" historical study situates the rather sudden emergence of madhouses ("Bedlam") on the Shakespearean stage in the sophisticated literary dispute known as the "Poets' War," wherein various dramatists, particularly Jonson and Shakespeare, argued about what drama was supposed to be. "Madness" became a rhetorical battleground of artistic ideas, and that dispute, rather than any desire to represent the actual hospital, led to the appearance of "Bedlam" on the stage."
Author |
: Jonathan Andrews |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2001-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520927850 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520927858 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Undertaker of the Mind by : Jonathan Andrews
As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal "Bedlam" and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715–1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a "connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy." Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious "enthusiast" Alexander Cruden, and the "mad" King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.
Author |
: Colin Gale |
Publisher |
: Wrightson Biomedical |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015056490777 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Presumed Curable by : Colin Gale
Preface; The study of the history of medicine, and especially that of psychiatry, often induces in the modern reader an understandable sense of relief that he or she is living in today's world, and not at any point in the past. Yet the stories of the patients in this book, representatives of many hundreds admitted to Bethlem Hospital in the late Victorian period, will resonate with all who take an interest in mental health care today. In these early years of our own twenty-first century, the fear and stigma associated with major mental illness remain strong. Psychiatrists and professionals in allied disciplines involved in the care and treatment of people with mental health problems still face disorders of uncertain aetiology that devastate the lives of sufferers and their families and for which there are no 'cures'. The advent of effective treatments for mood disorders and the symptoms of psychosis, some fifty years after the events detailed in this book, did of course result in tremendous improvements in prognosis and the alleviation of suffering. The nineteenth-century casebooks of Bethlem Hospital give relatively little information about the physical and chemical treatments app