This book draws largely on my unpublished Doctoral Thesis: A Space of Their Own: Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in England, South Australia and Tasmania, and l am happy to send information on South Australia and Tasmania not included in this book to interested readers.
A Space of Their Own.- The Archaeology of Institutions.- The Archaeology of Lunatic Asylums.- The Changing Face of Insanity and Rise of the Institution.- Constructing the ‘Ideal’.- The British Lunatic Asylum: Ideals and Realities.- South Australia and the ‘Ideal’ Lunatic Asylum.- Tasmania and the ‘Ideal’ Asylum.- The ‘Ideal’ Asylum: A World of Difference.- Conclusion: Archaeology and Lunatic Asylums.
