ISBN10: 0718501047, ISBN13: 9780718501044, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. Examines the legal and administrative regime of the 19th-century asylum, and argues that it is to be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent of the asylum has little power. The text also examines the place of the county asylum movement in the poor law debates of the mid-19th century. Using the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, the author looks at the role of the poor law officers in the admission processes of the asylum, and relations between poor law staff, asylum staff and the poor law and lunacy central inspectorates. Existing histories have portrayed nineteenth-century English county asylums as the realm of the asylum doctor. This book examines the legal and administrative regime of the asylum, and argues that it should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent of the asylum had remarkably little power. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
[Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]