London and its Asylums, 1888-1914 : Politics and Madness
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 7
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1007/978-3-030-44432-7
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9783030444310
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2020
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Exploring a period and sources often overlooked by historians, this monograph offers a new way to look at mental health institutions. With its focus on Victorian and Edwardian politics and political culture, it recasts asylums as sites of political discourse and debate. It places London and mental health care at the heart of international networks and debates relating to finance, welfare, architecture, scientific and medical initiatives, and the developing responses to immigrant populations. Overall, this national and trans-national study shines a light on the relationships between mental health policies and other ideological priorities, previously ignored or obscured.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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