Museums of Madness – Harold Raitt

The Rise of the Asylum
1. The Social Control of the Mad
2. Changing Responses to Insanity: Their Nature and Sources
The Social Context of Reform
1. Free Trade in Lunacy
2. The Reformers
3. The Cultural Meaning of Madness
4. Sources of the Changing Conception of Insanity
5. Private Investigations at the York Asylum and at Bethlem
The Chimera of the Curative Asylum
1. The 1815-16 Parliamentary Inquiry
2. The Fate of the First Reform Bills
3. Renewed Parliamentary Investigation
4. The Elaboration of a Pro-institutional Ideology
5. The Asylum’s Critics
6. The Model Institution
7. The Reformers Triumphant
8. The Ideal and the Reality
9. Controlling the Uncontrollable
From Madness to Mental Illness: Medical Men as Moral Entrepreneurs
1. Madness and Medicine
2. The Obstacles to a Medical Monopoly
3. The Threat Posed by Moral Treatment
4. The Weakness of Moral Treatment as a Professional Ideology
5. Medical Resistance to Reform
6. The Defence of Medical Hegemony
7. Persuasion at the Local Level
8. Madness as Mental Illness
Mad-Doctors and Magistrates: Psychiatry’s Struggle for Professional Autonomy
1. Problems for the New Profession
2. Managers of the Mad
3. Medical Authority in the Asylum
‘Museums for the Collection of Insanity’
1. The Growth of the County Asylum System
2. The Accumulation of Chronic Cases
3. Mammoth Asylums
4. The Custodial Institution
5. The Maintenance of Order
6. Asylums for the Upper Classes
7. Warehousing the Patients
8. Pressures to Economise
9. The Outcome of Reform
The Social Production of Insanity
1. Rising Numbers of Madmen
2. Official Explanations of the Increase
3. An Alternative Explanation
The Legacy of Reform
1. Competing Accounts of Lunacy Reform
2. ‘Experts’ and the Control of Deviance
3. Community Treatment
4. The Therapeutic State

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The Social Organization of Insanity in 19th Century England

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