The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England

Bartlett, Peter

Abstract

The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of patients. In this paper, admission records and case notes of a county asylum are used to consider the attitudes of those confined within it, and how the asylum was understood by patients relative to other options for care, most notably the workhouse.

Citation

Bartlett, P. (1998). The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 21(4), https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2527%2898%2900023-5

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 1998
• Deposit Date: Aug 24, 2012
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 24, 2012
• Journal: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry
• Print ISSN: 0160-2527
• Electronic ISSN: 0160-2527
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 4
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2527%2898%2900023-5
• Keywords: nineteenth-century; asylum; workhouse; insanity; patient narratives; Leicestershire; poor law
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1024180
• Publisher URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160252798000235
• Related Public URLs: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00023-5
• Additional Information: NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 21(4) (1998), doi: 10.1016/S0160-2527(98)00023-5