Given the preference for extra-mural care shown in some parts of Britain in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, this podcast asks whether what we now call (with caution) ‘care in the community’ worked because the people of the past were more tolerant towards aberrant words and behaviour. It concludes that madness was simply more familiar to historic populations than it is in the modern world, and the cultural values of the people of the past were subtly different to our own.
Image of the week: male patient of West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, York, suffering from ‘Mono-mania of pride’, c. 1869
Full Bibliographic Record: Wellcome Library Catalogue L0041119
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