TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Roy
AU  - Wright,David
TI  - The confinement of the insane: international perspectives, 1800-1965 
SN  - 9780521802062 (hbk.) :
AV  - RC439 .C737 2003
U1  - 362.210921 POR 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Psychiatric hospitals
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Insane
KW  - Commitment and detention
KW  - Health and Wellbeing
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Social & cultural history
KW  - thema
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - History of medicine
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This collection examines the origins of asylum as a mechanism for the treatment of insanity. Taking a global view, it considers the socioeconomic & theoretical factors which have shaped the modern notion of madness & the need for confinement of those deemed to be insane
ER  -