Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950

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Institutions of Confinement

Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950

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Edited by Norbert Finzsch, Universität Hamburg, Robert Jütte, Universität Hamburg

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: January 2013
Print publication year:: 1997
Online ISBN:: 9781139052535
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139052535

Subjects:: American History: General Interest, Area Studies, American Studies, Twentieth Century European History, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
Series:: Publications of the German Historical Institute

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A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with backgrounds in history, sociology and criminology utilize various methodological approaches and reflect the various viewpoints in the theoretical debate over Foucault's work.

"Many of the essays in this volume provide fascinating data about the origins of institutions that played significant societal roles....use their data to build a more persuasive interpretive framework." Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"...this volume is timely and will be much in demand." Nicholas R. Moschovakis, Sixteenth Century Journal

"...this compilation of essays provides a ready source of additional references and offers a needed perspective on the topic." Joanna D. Innes, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences

"...the reader can be grateful for a provocative distillatioln of the work of a leading American historian of the hospital, recast to elicit comparative reflections." Thomas M. Adams, Journal of Social History

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Institutions of Confinement

Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500–1950

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Frontmatter
pp i-x

INTRODUCTION

1 - Elias, Foucault, Oestreich: On a Historical Theory of Confinement
pp 3-16

2 - Four Centuries of Prison History
pp 17-36

PART ONE - HOSPITALS AND ASYLUMS

3 - The Transformation of the American Hospital
pp 39-54

4 - The Construction of the Hospital Patient in Early Modern France
pp 55-74

5 - Before the Clinic Was “Born”: Methodological Perspectives in Hospital History
pp 75-96

6 - Syphilis and Confinement
pp 97-116

7 - Madhouses, Children's Wards, and Clinics
pp 117-132

8 - Pietist Universal Reform and Care of the Sick and the Poor
pp 133-152

PART TWO - PRISONS

9 - Michel Foucault's Impact on the German Historiography of Criminal Justice, Social Discipline, and Medicalization
pp 155-174

10 - The History of Ideas and Its Significance for the Prison System
pp 175-190

11 - The Prerogatives of Confinement in Germany, 1933-1945
pp 191-212

12 - “Comparing Apples and Oranges?” The History of Early Prisons in Germany and the United States, 1800-1860
pp 213-234

13 - Reformers United: The American and the German Juvenile Court, 1882-1923
pp 235-274

14 - The Medicalization of Criminal Law Reform in Imperial Germany
pp 275-284

15 - Prison Reform in France and Other European Countries in the Nineteenth Century
pp 285-300

16 - Surveillance and Redemption: The Casa di Correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome
pp 301-324

17 - “Policing the Bachelor Subculture”: The Demographics of Summary Misdemeanants, Allegheny County Jail, 1892-1923
pp 325-348

18 - Beyond Confinement?: Notes on the History and Possible Future of Solitary Confinement in Germany
pp 349-362

Index
pp 363-369

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