Louise Westwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 6554393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Westwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Westwood |
| SIGNATURE | WESTWOOD L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Care in the Community of the Mentally Disordered
The independent, charitable Guardianship Society began providing foster-care for children with mental and physical disabilities in turn-of-the-century Brighton. This approach was the antithesis of the well-documented shift towards care in a controlled and secure environment. After 1913, the Society worked with adults and pioneered boarding-out schemes and work placements for training while allowing their 'charges' to enjoy considerable freedom in…
Criminal Man
This book provides a companion volume to the previous translation of Cesare Lombroso's (1835–1909) other major work Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman, which was reviewed in Social History of Medicine in December 2005. Gibson and Rafter state that the purpose of both volumes is to provide ‘an adequate English translation of a classic work and to lay foundations for an emerging new generation of Lombroso scholarship’ (p. 4). Crimi…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
A Quiet Revolution in Brighton
At the close of the nineteenth century, the English lunacy laws in relation to pauper cases made no concessions for acute, temporary, or recoverable cases. They were all located in the asylum along with severe and chronic cases. Dr Helen Boyle worked among London's poor in the 1890s and observed the deterioration of cases of nervous disorder and borderline insanity due to their lack of treatment. The early treatment of borderline cases was the ai…
The Eastern Supervisors’ Conference
The Eastern Supervisors’ Conference
Care in the Community of the Mentally Disordered
The independent, charitable Guardianship Society began providing foster-care for children with mental and physical disabilities in turn-of-the-century Brighton. This approach was the antithesis of the well-documented shift towards care in a controlled and secure environment. After 1913, the Society worked with adults and pioneered boarding-out schemes and work placements for training while allowing their 'charges' to enjoy considerable freedom in…
A Quiet Revolution in Brighton
At the close of the nineteenth century, the English lunacy laws in relation to pauper cases made no concessions for acute, temporary, or recoverable cases. They were all located in the asylum along with severe and chronic cases. Dr Helen Boyle worked among London's poor in the 1890s and observed the deterioration of cases of nervous disorder and borderline insanity due to their lack of treatment. The early treatment of borderline cases was the ai…
The Eastern Supervisors’ Conference
The Eastern Supervisors’ Conference
A Quiet Revolution in Brighton
At the close of the nineteenth century, the English lunacy laws in relation to pauper cases made no concessions for acute, temporary, or recoverable cases. They were all located in the asylum along with severe and chronic cases. Dr Helen Boyle worked among London's poor in the 1890s and observed the deterioration of cases of nervous disorder and borderline insanity due to their lack of treatment. The early treatment of borderline cases was the ai…
Criminal Woman, the Prostitute, and the Normal Woman
Care in the Community of the Mentally Disordered
The independent, charitable Guardianship Society began providing foster-care for children with mental and physical disabilities in turn-of-the-century Brighton. This approach was the antithesis of the well-documented shift towards care in a controlled and secure environment. After 1913, the Society worked with adults and pioneered boarding-out schemes and work placements for training while allowing their 'charges' to enjoy considerable freedom in…
Criminal Man
This book provides a companion volume to the previous translation of Cesare Lombroso's (1835–1909) other major work Criminal Woman, the Prostitute and the Normal Woman, which was reviewed in Social History of Medicine in December 2005. Gibson and Rafter state that the purpose of both volumes is to provide ‘an adequate English translation of a classic work and to lay foundations for an emerging new generation of Lombroso scholarship’ (p. 4). Crimi…
Political science (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (2 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works) · History (2 works) · International Science and Diplomacy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)