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ISBN-13: | 9780719097690 |
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Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
Publication date: | 01/01/2016 |
Pages: | 392 |
Product dimensions: | 6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d) |
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Table of Contents
List of figures vii
List of contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Therapy and empowerment, coercion and punishment. Historical and contemporary perspectives on work, psychiatry and society Waltraud Ernst 1
1 The role of work in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain Jane Freebody 31
2 Therapeutic work and mental illness in America, c. 1830-1970 Ben Harris 55
3 Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800-70 James Moran 77
4 From blasting powder to tomato pickles: Patient work at the provincial mental hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, 1885-1920 Kathryn McKay 99
5 'Useful both to the patients as well as to the State': Patient work in colonial mental hospitals in South Asia, c. 1818-1948 Waltraud Ernst 117
6 'A powerful agent in their recovery': Work as treatment in British West Indian lunatic asylums, 1860-1910 Leonard Smith 142
7 Work and activity in mental hospitals in modern Japan, c. 1868-2000 Akira Hashimoto 163
8 Patient work and family care at Iwakura, Japan, c. 1799-1970 Osama Nakamura 182
9 Work and occupation in Romanian psychiatry, c. 1838-1945 Valentin-Veron Toma 194
10 Between therapeutic instrument and exploitation of labour force: Patient work in rural asylums in Württemberg, c. 1810-1945 Thomas Muller 220
11 The patient's view of work therapy: The mental hospital Hamburg-Langenhorn during the Weimar Republic Monika Ankele 238
12 They were 'improved', punished and cured: The construction of 'workshy', 'industrious' and (non-)compliant inmates in forced labour facilities in the First Republic of Austria between 1918 and 1938 Sonja Hinsch 262
13 Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870-1914 Sarah Chaney 277
14 Work and the Irish District Asylums during the late nineteenth century Oonagh Walsh 298
15 From work and occupation to occupational therapy: The policies of professionalisation in English mental hospitals from 1919 to 1959 John Hall 314
16 Work is therapy? The function of employment in British psychiatric care after 1959 Vicky Long 334
17 The hollow gardener and other stories: Reason and relation in the work cure Jennifer Laws 351
Index 368