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Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society = Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911 /

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Title/Author:	Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society/ by Stef Eastoe.
Reminder of title:	Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911 /
Author:	Eastoe, Stef.
Description:	XVII, 212 p. 15 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Social history. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27335-4
ISBN:	9783030273354

Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society = Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911 /
Eastoe, Stef.

Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian SocietyCaterham Asylum, 1867–1911 /[electronic resource] :by Stef Eastoe. - 1st ed. 2020. - XVII, 212 p. 15 illus.online resource. - Mental Health in Historical Perspective,2634-6036. - Mental Health in Historical Perspective,.

Chapter 1: Introduction and the Roots of Caterham -- Chapter 2: Creating Caterham -- Chapter 3: Populating Caterham -- Chapter 4: Experiencing Caterham -- Chapter 5: Visualising Idiocy, Visualising Caterham -- Chapter 6: Geographies of Idiocy -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.

ISBN: 9783030273354

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-27335-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

559581
Social history.

LC Class. No.: HN8-19

Dewey Class. No.: 306.09

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