Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
York Retreat Insane Asylum
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1813: In his discussion of the York Retreat Insane...
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1813
In his discussion of the York Retreat Insane Asylum
, Samuel Tuke
suggested that moral management of inmates could be more successful than physical restraints.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
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1814: The York Lunatic Asylum began to allow access...
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1814
The York Lunatic Asylum
began to allow access to charitable female visitors.
Prochaska, F. K. Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth-Century England. Clarendon, 1980.
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1845: John Thurnam's Observations and Essays on...
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1845
John Thurnam
's Observations and Essays on the Statistics of Lunacy estimated that male patients at the York Retreat Insane Asylum
outnumbered female inmates by approximately 30%.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
