Gender and Class in English Asylums, 1890–1914

Hide, Louise

doi:10.1057/9781137321435

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“…Minor incidents which were resolved at ward level were unlikely to reach the ears of the VC, let alone the Board. 49 Nevertheless, the Board admitted to having to deal with allegations of brutality inflicted by attendants "almost daily and sometimes had to prosecute." 50 This comment was made in the context of the Board's response to concerns about asylums practices which Leonard Winter, a temporary wartime attendant, had raised with the Society of Friends and the National Council for Lunacy Reform.…”

Section: Abuse In the Asylums: Allegations And Outcomesmentioning

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Accidents, Injuries, Escapes and Suicides

Hilton

2020

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War

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This chapter aims to bring together components of asylum life—the law, the leadership, staff, patients and public—to create a broad picture about what happened when things went wrong: accidents, injuries, escapes and suicides. There are drawbacks, in that much of the material is necessarily anecdotal with inconsistencies and contradictions. However, cases provide enough evidence to identify repeated patterns of attitudes, behaviours and decision making, from which conclusions can be drawn. The Board of Control indicated that it knew about asylum rough handling, but it did little to try to remedy the situation. Despite their rhetoric of good intentions, the asylum leadership frequently rationalised or denied maltreatment, thus failing to secure the most humane conditions for patients.

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Section: Abuse In the Asylums: Allegations And Outcomesmentioning

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Accidents, Injuries, Escapes and Suicides

Hilton

2020

Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War

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“…14 Louise Hide notes that moral treatment was seen as an advancement in humanitarian asylum treatment. 15 However, as Michel Foucault argued, moral treatment 'symbolized the massive structures of bourgeois society in its values'. 16 Thus, Foucault saw moral treatment as moral imprisonment.…”

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Unnatural Womanhood: Moral Treatment, Puerperal Insanity and the Female Patients at the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum, 1858–1908

Wallis¹

2020

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Puerperal insanity, or what might be understood as a form of postnatal depression, was the third most frequent diagnosis among the women of the Fremantle Lunatic Asylum from 1858 to 1908. The emphasis society placed on pregnancy and child-rearing as women's primary function resulted in anxieties surrounding childbirth. Modern medical professionals are now aware there are several factors involved in postnatal depression. However, nineteenth-century physicians viewed it as a common issue of 'mental derangement' in women soon after childbirth, but unlikely to be permanent. To treat this, Fremantle Asylum physicians instituted moral treatment methods, including domestic work as rehabilitation. As this paper demonstrates, this form of rehabilitation reinforced the conventional feminine behaviours essential for functioning wives and mothers in nineteenth-and early twentieth-century society. As women suffering puerperal insanity challenged the notions of domesticity and femininity, their experiences allow for an analysis of how moral treatment was implemented in Fremantle. Through the patient records and case books of the Fremantle Asylum, this paper reveals that moral treatment did not cure all patients, leaving some susceptible to readmission and continued mental illness.

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“…After a focus on the social history of the discipline and its cultural hegemony to define insanity in the 1970s and 1980s, historians began to broaden their view in the late 1990s, integrating new actors, especially patients (Bacopoulos-Viau/Fauvel 2016), and gradually illustrating how the discipline and its institutions co-constructed race, age, gender, and class (Leckie 2019;Taylor 2017;Rose et al 2016;Studer 2016;Hide 2014;Ankele 2009;Nolte 2003;Jackson 2005).…”

Section: Writing the History Of Psychiatry Todaymentioning

confidence: 99%