Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England

Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England

Cure, Redemption and Rehabilitation

Pedley, Alison C.

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

02/2025

288

Mole

9781350275355

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1. 'One of the very gravest of crimes.': Introduction
2. 'How Criminal Lunatics Are Made': Pathways to the Asylum - Court Cases, Criminal Responsibility, Insanity Defence and the Power of Medical Evidence
3. 'To be held until her Majesty's pleasure be known': Confinement - Opinions, Discussions, and Decisions
4. 'God bless all hear for the good nursing I get now.' Dynamics of Treatment and Care in the Asylums
5. 'They should be ... happy and comfortable.' Patient Life in the Asylums and the Impact of Behaviour and Relationships
6. 'The paramount importance of gentleness and kindness to all patients.' Therapeutic Agency - Medical Men, Chaplains and Attendant Staff in the Asylums.
7. 'She might, without unwarrantable risk, be discharged.' Release or Retention and the Protocols of Discharge.
8. 'A depth of sympathy and a breadth of charity': Conclusion.

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psychiatry; infanticide; mothers; history of medicine; gender history; women's history; legal history; crime; Victorian era; murder; social history; female criminal lunacy; institutional histories; Bethlem; Fisherton House; Broadmoor