"Fit localities for an asylum": the historical geography of the nineteenth-century "mad-business" in England as viewed through the pages of the Asylum Journal

Journal of Historical Geography

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1987, Pages 398-415

  Philo, Chris ^a  

^a SIDNEY SUSSEX COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HISTORY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; MENTAL HOSPITAL; UNITED KINGDOM;

GREAT BRITAIN; HISTORY OF MEDICINE, MODERN; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC;

EID: 0023521733     PISSN: 03057488     EISSN: 10958614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-7488(87)80049-X     Document Type: Article

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15. Prospectus
16. Psychological gossip
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18. Review of Van Leeuwen's “Report on the establishment, construction and operation of the best asylums for the insane in France and elsewhere”
19. On the medico-moral treatment of the insane
20. What's in a name?
21. On residences for the insane
22. On the prospects of physicians engaged in practice in cases of insanity
23. Prospectus
24. The custody of the insane poor
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26. On the want of better provisions for the labouring and middle classes when attacked or threatened with insanity
27. On the establishment of a state asylum
28. Review of Arlidge's ‘On the state of lunacy and the legal provisions for the insane’
29. The Annual Reports of County Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals of the Insane in England and Wales
30. Copy of letter to Dr. Browne on idiot schools
31. Review of Sieveking's “On epilepsy and epileptiform seizures”
32. Five cardinal questions on administrative psychiatry
33. Five cardinal questions on administrative psychiatry
34. Five cardinal questions on administrative psychiatry
35. The accumulation of chronic lunatics in asylums: questions of further accommodation
36. Does vivilization favour the generation of mental disease?
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38. Review of Van Leeuwen's “Report on the establishment, construction and operation of the best asylums for the insane in France and elsewhere”
39. Visiting physicians to county asylums
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49. Third notice of the Eighth Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy
50. Description of the Lincolnshire County Asylum
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57. Review of Nightingale's “Notes on nursing”
58. Statistics of land attached to the county asylums of England
59. The restraint system, as practised at the North and East Ridings Asylum and at the Asylum for the County of Bedford
60. Second notice of the Eighth Report of the Commissioners in Lunacy
61. The restraint system, as practised at the North and East Ridings Asylum and at the Asylum for the County of Bedford
62. Lunatic economy and farm profits: a letter
63. The restraint system, as practised at the North and East Ridings Asylum and at the Asylum for the County of Bedford
64. The new pauper lunatic asylum for the county of Essex
65. The new lunatic hospital at Nottingham: laying the foundation stone
66. A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heath
67. St Luke's Hospital for lunatics
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78. Round-up of the Annual Reports of County Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals of the Insane in England and Wales published during 1856
79. A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Health
80. Review of the First Annual Report of the General Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland
81. A descriptive notice of the Sussex Lunatic Asylum, Hayward's Heralth
82. The road from Mandalay towards a geographical philosophy
83. Problems of geography