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Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War : A Study of Austerity on London's Fringe.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hilton, Claire.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Civilian Lunatic Asylums During the First World War
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • CHAPTER1 Introduction: Civilians, Lunacy and the First World War
  • Historiography of the Asylums
  • From Broad Theories and Generalisations to Specifics and Diversity
  • Shell Shock: Historiography and Change
  • Placing the Patients Centre Stage
  • Standards of Care and How to Measure Them
  • The Language of the Asylums
  • Other Methodological Considerations
  • CHAPTER 2 Infrastructure: Rules, Walls, Obstacles and Opportunities
  • Introduction
  • The Lunacy Act 1890: "Red Tapism", Admissions, Finance, Reform and Change
  • The Board of Control, Asylum Leadership and Their Challenges
  • Special Care? Service Patients and Other Groups
  • Creating Military Hospitals from Asylums
  • Reconstruction
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 3 Certified Insane: Concepts and Practices
  • Introduction: Lily's Story
  • Air Raids and Other War Stresses in the Community
  • Understanding Mental Disorders: Classification
  • Researching Mental Conditions
  • GPI: Clinical Challenge, Research and Cautious Responses to Innovation
  • Nature and Nurture: Biological, Social and Psychological
  • Treatments: Moral and Medical, Restraint and Seclusion
  • Recovery, Convalescence and Discharge
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 4 Personnel: Staffing the Asylums and Serving the Colours
  • Introduction
  • The Staff on the Asylum Front Line
  • Hierarchies
  • Gender, Status and Staff Education
  • Medical Staff: Doctors and Dilemmas
  • Serving the Colours
  • Towards the End of the War
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 5 Food, Farm and Fuel: An Inequitable Supply Chain
  • Introduction
  • The National Food Context
  • Asylum Diets: Supply and Demand
  • Asylum Diets and Nutritional Understanding
  • Communal Eating for Patients and Staff.
  • Food Distribution in the Asylums
  • Asylum Farms
  • Fuel
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 6 Patients and Their Daily Life
  • Introduction
  • Seeking the Patients' View
  • In-Patient Life
  • Clothing
  • Cleanliness
  • Night Times
  • Patients' Links with People Outside
  • Patients at Work
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 7 Difficult Diseases: Tuberculosis and Other Infections
  • Introduction: Elsie and Mohammed
  • Death Rates and Post-mortems
  • Tuberculosis
  • Tuberculosis at Claybury and Hanwell: Case Studies
  • Other Infections: Dysentery, Typhoid and Influenza
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 8 Accidents, Injuries, Escapes and Suicides
  • Introduction: A Culture of Kindness or Harm?
  • Abuse in the Asylums: Allegations and Outcomes
  • Broken Bones and Cauliflower Ears: Facts and Fictions
  • Escapes
  • Suicides
  • Conclusions
  • CHAPTER 9 Shackles and Chains: Some Concluding Thoughts
  • Then and Now
  • Leadership: Attitudes and Standards
  • Patients, Outcomes and Austerity
  • Making Change
  • Final Word
  • Index.

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