Overview
- Explores the experiences of insane children in Victorian England
- Studies the complexities of regional differences and medical categories
- Shows how the history of childhood intersects with urbanisation, economics and philanthropy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood (PSHC)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a ‘mixed economy of care’ by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.
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About the author
Steven J. Taylor is Research Assistant at the Centre for Health Histories at the University of Huddersfield and Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Medical Humanities at the University of Leicester, UK. His work has been published in Family and Community History, History of Psychiatry, and History.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907
Authors: Steven Taylor
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-60027-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95606-7Published: 27 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-60027-1Published: 09 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6532
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6540
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 188
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, History of Medicine, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Childhood, Adolescence and Society