TY  - BOOK
AU  - Taylor,Steven J
TI  - Child insanity in England, 1845-1907 
T2  - Palgrave studies in the history of childhood
SN  - 9781349956067
PY  - 2017///
CY  - London
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Mentally ill children
KW  - Care
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Mental Disorders
KW  - history
KW  - History of medicine
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Child mental health
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Introduction -- 2. 'Much below insects, and so little above sensitive plants': Constructing the Insane Child -- 3. Networks of Care: Asylum Children, Typology, and Experience -- 4. Looking Out from the Asylum: Deathbeds, Distribution, and Diversity -- 5. Beyond the Asylum: Dealing with Insane Children -- 6. Conclusion
N2  - This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a 'mixed economy of care' by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.--
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