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This collection examines the growth of institutional care from 1800-1914, revisiting Foucault and considering the role of ethnicity, race, gender, and political and cultural factors in Britain and colonial contexts. It also explores the historical understanding of madness and the challenges of providing care.
This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.
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