The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.
Introduction: Contexts of Insanity;
Chapter 1 Caring For Surreys
Insane: Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium;
Chapter 2 Therapeutic
Agents: Doctors and Attendants;
Chapter 3 Origins and Journeys: The Patients
at Brookwood Asylum and Holloway Sanatorium;
Chapter 4 Hurry, Worry,
Annoyance and Needless Trouble: Patients In Residence;
Chapter 5 The
Taxonomy and Treatment of Insanity;
Chapter 6 Suicide, Self-Harm and Madness
in the Asylum;
Chapter 7 Conclusion;
