The politics of madness : the state, insanity and society in England, 1845-1914 / Joseph Melling and Bill Forsythe.

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

xvii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [262]-270) and index.

Introduction : the English asylum and its historians -- The origins of the asylum -- The asylum and the British state in the administration of pauper lunacy, 1845-1914 -- The ethos of treatment, care, and management at the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Journey to the asylum : residence, distance, and migration in admissions to the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Community, friends, and family : asylum, lunatics, and the social environment, 1845-1914 -- Reading the rules of domesticity : gender, insanity, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- Madness and the market : occupations, class, and the asylum, 1845-1914 -- The patient experience of the pauper and private asylum -- From asylum inmate to outpatient : the remaking of the institutional landscape in the twentieth century, 1914-1990.