Peasant Survival Strategies in Late Imperial Russia
The Social Uses of the Mental Hospital
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2484571 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julie V Brown (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 311-329 |
| Publication date | 1987-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Problems (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7791 • E-ISSN: 1533-8533 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/800810 |
| OpenAlex | W2090882830 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 31 |
This paper examines the social functions of the asylum in late imperial Russia based upon analysis of asylum annual reports and related documents. Seasonal variations in patient admissions and discharges suggest that the use of asylums fluctuated according to the requirements of the peasant economy. My evidence also indicates that the asylum fulfilled essentially the same functions for workers and patients, and that to a certain extent the two statuses were interchangeable. While the asylum remained a powerful and coercive means of social control, the beleagured peasant population managed to incorporate the institution into its increasingly desperate strategies for survival
Archaeology · Control (management) · Economic history · Economics · Institution · Management · Mental hospital · Peasant · Political science · Population · Psychiatry · Social control · Sociology · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Psychology
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Impediments to recovery in treatment programs for dually diagnosed homeless adults
On the Precariousness of Measuring Insanity in Insane Contexts
Homeless Mobility, Institutional Settings, and the New Poverty Management
Held in Abeyance
Some Old Questions for the New Cross-Cultural Psychiatry
Methods of Madness
Social control and the state
Mental institutions in America
On Being Sane in Insane Places
The discovery of the asylum
Human Problems of a State Mental Hospital
Control Over Policy by Attendants in a Mental Hospital
Crime, Police and Society in St. Petersburg, Russia, 1866‐1878
Patient Attitudes toward Mental Hospitalization
Izbrannye proizvedeniia
Russian Physicians in an Era of Reform and Revolution, 1856-1905
The Peasant in Nineteenth Century Russia
Russian Factory Women
Lunacy in the Industrial Revolution
Asylum and Society
The Decision To Institutionalize
The Moscow Workhouse and Urban Welfare Reform in Russia
The Woman's Side
Concepts of Insanity in the United States, 1789-1865
Conscience and Convenience
The Favorableness of Patients' Attitudes toward Mental Hospitalization
Institution and Family
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 1988 - 2022 (35) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |