British County Pauper Lunatic Asylums

Description

The book focusses on the late Victorian period where the number of patients housed in county pauper lunatic asylums drastically rose, thus adding knowledge to our understanding of attitudes to and the relief of historically marginalised individuals who sat at the intersection between poverty and mental illness, an increasingly common position as the nineteenth century progressed.

Importantly, this book uncovers the voices and experiences of such marginally positioned individuals through patient case-studies which outline in detail the stories of specific patients. By doing so the book makes an important contribution to 'history from below' and the unpacking of paupers' experience of relief systems, within which county pauper lunatic asylums sat, which has been a key recent focus in the field of British welfare and medical history.

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