Parsimony, Power, and Prescriptive Legislation
The Politics of Pauper Lunacy in Northamptonshire, 1845–1876
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15025342 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Smith (0000-0002-0081-7024, University of Northampton, corresponding author), Catherine R Smith (0000-0002-9294-6973) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 359-385 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the history of medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-5140 • E-ISSN: 1086-3176 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/bhm.2007.0051 |
| PMID | 17844720 |
| OpenAlex | W2022315369 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 10 |
The Northampton General Lunatic Asylum opened in 1836 and was funded through local subscriptions. Unlike many other subscription asylums, it did not become a county asylum after the 1845 Lunacy Acts, but was registered as a charitable hospital. This article explores the dynamics that resulted in the Northamptonshire authorities' successfully evading their responsibility to build a county asylum. The loopholes in the supposedly mandatory legislation are examined, with the implications this had for the relationship between the Commissioners in Lunacy and the NGLA governors, as well as the conflict between the local magistrates and the NGLA governors that eventually forced Northamptonshire to conform and build its own specific county asylum in 1876
Legislation · Lunatic · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Public Administration
Family, community and the Victorian asylum
An Undiscovered Victorian Institution of Care
All His Ways Are Those of an Idiot’
Children, poverty and mental health in rural and urban England (1850–1907)
Mad doctors? The significance of medical practitioners admitted as patients to the first English county asylums up to 1890
The most solitary of afflictions
Madness, morality, and medicine
Power and pauperism
Rethinking the Age of Reform
Getting Out of the Asylum
State Intervention in Mid-Nineteenth Century Britain
The landed interest and the New Poor Law
British Government Inspection, 1832–1875
Changes in the Asylum
Madness and Civilization
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2020 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |