Topic
Asylums research, explained
5 open-access asylums studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Did non-restraint end asylum confinement?
Topp argues that taking off mechanical restraints put new weight on seclusion in single rooms, a microcosm of the asylum’s privacy-versus-prison problem.
- Irish patients in Lancashire asylums
Cox and Marland argue that Irish migrants used Lancashire workhouses and asylums as survival sites, helping overload a confinement system that could no longer keep all pauper lunatics in asylums.
- How did prisons manage mental illness?
Cox and Marland use Pentonville and Irish prison records to show that separate confinement, feigning scares, and ‘lunatic convict’ labels kept distressed prisoners inside harmful regimes.
- The Morningside Mirror as moral treatment
Patient writing and printing at Morningside (1845–1882) was sold as a philanthropic moral agent, while class still split libraries, fees, and space.
- Epilepsy knowledge at Margarethahemmet
New neurology and medico-pedagogy shaped Swedish residential care and schooling for children with epilepsy, 1915–40.