Table of Contents

List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Introduction. 1. The rise of the public asylum. 2. Asylum management. 3. 'Waste stuff': Peopling the asylum. 4. 'The most essential instruments': From keepers to attendants. 5. Inside the asylum. 6. Treatment and care. 7. Useful occupation. 8. With due restraint - Conclusions: In pursuit of cure - Bibliography - Index.

About the Author

Leonard D. Smith is a social worker with the Psychiatric Emergency Team, Northern Birmingham Mental Health Trust/Birmingham Social Services. He is also an Honorary Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Research in the Humanities at the University of Birmingham.