Outside the Walls of the Asylum by Peter Bartlett

Outside the Walls of the Asylum by Peter Bartlett

This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and treatment of the insane and the practice of mental healing by general practitioners.

Peter Bartlett is Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Professor of Mental Health Law at the University of Nottingham. He has written and contributed to a wide array of publications in the field including Mental Health Law: Policy and Practice 3/e (co-authored with Ralph Sandland, forthcoming from
OUP); Mental Disability and the European Convention on Human Rights (co-authored with O. Lewis and O. Thorold, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2006) and Mental Health Law: The Advocates' Manual 2/e (Toronto, Community Legal Education, 1988);

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ISBN 13	9780485121476
ISBN 10	0485121476
Title	Outside the Walls of the Asylum
Author	Peter Bartlett
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	1999-10-01
Number of pages	352
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