Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.

Introduction: Contexts of Insanity; Chapter 1 Caring For Surrey's Insane: Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium; Chapter 2 Therapeutic Agents: Doctors and Attendants; Chapter 3 Origins and Journeys: The Patients at Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium; Chapter 4 'Hurry, Worry, Annoyance and Needless Trouble': Patients In Residence; Chapter 5 The Taxonomy and Treatment of Insanity; Chapter 6 Suicide, Self-Harm and Madness in the Asylum; Chapter 7 Conclusion;