Managing Madness: Changing Ideas and Practice

activities admission admitted argued argument associated attempt attention authority behaviour belief causes changes Chapter clinical concepts concern considered cure dependence direct disease disorders doctors early economic effect especially establishment existing factors functioning further given hand health services hospitals houses human ibid ideas important increasing individual inmates insanity instance institutions interest involved largely less lunacy lunatics means medical practitioners medicine mental health mental hospitals mental illness moral nature necessary nineteenth century object offered organic particular patients pauper period persons physical physicians poor law population practice practitioners private madhouses problems profession professional psychiatric psychological public asylums question range reform relation Report response result separate sickness social society specific status suggests symptoms Table therapeutic treatment types voluntary women workhouses