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Attending madness at work in the Australian aasylum 1st Edition by Lee Ann Monk ISBN 9042024194 9789042024199

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Author(s): Monk, Lee-Ann
ISBN(s): 9789042024199, 9042024194
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.57 MB
Year: 2008
Language: english
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ISBN 10:    9042024194
ISBN 13: 978-9042024199
Author:        Lee Ann Monk

‘He is what we would call a very good attendant, who would not run away or flinch from any patient, but would try to have his orders carried out if possible.’ Such was the view of William Coady, attendant to the insane in the British settler colony of Victoria, Australia in the 1870s.
Attending Madness is a history of William Coady’s occupation, a history of asylum work and workers in nineteenth-century Australia. It considers not only who attendants were and why they worked in the asylum, but also how they and others variously defined ‘the very good attendant’.
Colonial asylum advocates imagined the attendant as an archetype, drawing on ideas from Britain about the nature of insanity and its treatment. In exploring the articulation of these ideas in a colonial context, and their effect on the asylum workplace, Lee-Ann Monk makes an important contribution to the international history of the asylum. She also opens new dimensions in the history of this occupation, on which the fate of patients very much depended, by analysing attendants’ efforts to construct an occupational identity and give meaning to their work, thus providing new insights into their sense of themselves and their occupation.

Attending madness at work in the Australian aasylum 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Historical Context of Australian Asylums

  • Chapter 1: The Emergence of the Asylum System in Australia
    • Early Attitudes Toward Mental Illness
    • The Foundation of the First Asylums
    • Influences of European Psychiatric Practices
  • Chapter 2: The Role of Psychiatry and Medical Professionals in the Asylum
    • The Rise of Psychiatry as a Medical Discipline
    • The Establishment of Professional Hierarchies in the Asylum
    • Medical Practices and Treatments in the 19th Century

Part II: Life Within the Asylum

  • Chapter 3: The Daily Experience of Patients
    • The Structure of Daily Life in the Asylum
    • Medical Care vs. Institutional Control
    • Patient Autonomy and Control
  • Chapter 4: The Role of Staff in Managing Madness
    • Staff Training and Responsibilities
    • The Social Hierarchy Among Asylum Workers
    • The Emotional and Psychological Toll on Staff

Part III: Work and Madness

  • Chapter 5: The Labour of Caring for the Mentally Ill
    • The Work of Nurses, Orderlies, and Other Asylum Staff
    • The Division of Labour and Class Structure in the Asylum
    • The Emotional Labour of Caring for the Mad
  • Chapter 6: Work as a Form of Control in the Asylum
    • Work and its Role in the Institutionalization Process
    • The Impact of Labour on Patient Identity
    • Punishment, Rehabilitation, and the Work Environment

Part IV: Gender and Madness in the Australian Asylum

  • Chapter 7: Gendered Roles and Experiences in the Asylum
    • The Experience of Women in the Asylum
    • The Treatment of Female Patients
    • The Gendered Nature of Caregiving and Institutional Practices
  • Chapter 8: Masculinity, Madness, and Institutional Power
    • Male Staff in Positions of Authority
    • Gendered Power Dynamics within the Asylum

Part V: Transformations and Reforms in the Asylum System

  • Chapter 9: Changing Attitudes Toward Mental Illness and the Asylum
    • The Shift Toward Community Care
    • The De-institutionalization Movement
    • Contemporary Challenges in Mental Health Care
  • Chapter 10: Reforming the Asylum System: Successes and Failures
    • Legislative and Social Changes in the 20th Century
    • The Legacy of Asylum Care

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