Titlebook: Insanity, Race and Colonialism; Managing Mental Diso Leonard Smith Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited

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,Reform — The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum,elled. The new lunatic asylum was surrounded with difficulties from the outset. It was quickly evident that a new building, even if properly finished and fully equipped, was not sufficient. A complete change in approach would be required to all aspects of the institution’s operation. The skills and

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Pathways to the Asylum,he development of institutions toward the people who entered and inhabited them. Since the ground-breaking work of John Walton on asylum admissions in mid-nineteenth-century Lancashire, scholars have sought to identify and analyse the circumstances that lay behind committal.. Examinations of case re

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The Patient Challenge,ed degree of risk, disturbance, or hopelessness they had exhibited. As a consequence of some extreme situation or series of events they were now in an institution providing, in varying measures, custodial care and recuperative treatment. Patients all arrived with their individual backgrounds, experi

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The Colonial Asylum Regime, safety and security of the public at large. In some cases patients achieved recovery, followed by a resumption of social and economic roles in family and community. In other less promising instances the goals were more modest, comprising behavioural improvement, risk reduction, and a reasonably com

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Conclusion,dered people in the British colonies of the West Indies, and arguably beyond. The exposure of prolonged, entrenched squalor, abuse, and disregard for basic human decency in Jamaica demonstrated the existence of a huge gulf between aspirations for treatment of the pauper insane in enlightened post-re

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2635-1633 uffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became insane, in the period until the Great War.978-1-349-43998-0978-1-137-31805-3Series ISSN 2635-1633 Series E-ISSN 2635-1641

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,Reform — The Jamaica Lunatic Asylum,oviding an example for emulation throughout the British Caribbean. The achievements, though, proved difficult to sustain. Toward the end of the century there were critical challenges, familiar enough in Britain, related to ever-growing patient numbers and increasingly inadequate facilities.

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The Patient Challenge,ow patients. As this chapter will illustrate, asylum patient populations were highly diverse, both in terms of personal characteristics and in their adaptations to the regime. It becomes evident that, far from being passive recipients, many patients demonstrated clear agency in their responses to the institution’s routines and practices.