Asylum in the Long Nineteenth Century

This volume is concerned with lunacy in the nineteenth century and the institutions for the control and containment of the insane. Besides some of the archives for these institutions, the sources also contain archival and primary sources related with legislation, medicine, the history of insanity, lunatic asylums for the pauper, for the well-off, for the criminal and for children in the nineteenth century. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the history of medicine, the history of sexuality and the history of insanity in the long nineteenth century, as well as with the history of institutions to contain and control the mentally insane and the sexually deviant.