Download or read book Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 written by Bill Forsythe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.