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Broken minds and beaten bodies : cultures of harm and the management of mental illness in mid- to late nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons

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Cox, Catherine and Marland, Hilary (2018) Broken minds and beaten bodies : cultures of harm and the management of mental illness in mid- to late nineteenth-century English and Irish prisons. Social History of Medicine . hky038. doi:10.1093/shm/hky038 ISSN 1477-4666.

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Abstract

This article explores the relationship between the prison and mental illness, focusing on the ways in which the system of separate confinement was associated with mental breakdown and how maintaining the integrity of prison discipline mitigated against prisoners obtaining treatment or removal to an asylum. Examples are taken from English and Irish prisons, from the introduction of separate confinement at Pentonville Prison in London in 1842 until the late nineteenth century, exploring the persistence of the system of separation in the face of evidence that it was harming the minds of prisoners. The article also briefly examines the ways in which prison doctors argued that they were dealing with special categories of prisoner, adept at feigning, intrinsically weak-minded and whose mental deterioration was embedded in their criminality, factors that served to reinforce the harmful environment for mentally ill prisoners.

Item Type: Journal Article
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare
Divisions: Faculty of Arts > History
Faculty of Arts > History > Centre for the History of Medicine
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Prisons -- History -- England -- 19th century, Asylums -- History -- England -- 19th century, Mental illness -- History -- England -- 19th century, Prisons -- History -- Ireland -- 19th century, Asylums -- History -- Ireland -- 19th century, Mental illness -- History -- Ireland -- 19th century
Journal or Publication Title: Social History of Medicine
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 1477-4666
Official Date: 15 June 2018
Dates:
DateEvent
15 June 2018Published
6 April 2018Accepted
Article Number: hky038
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hky038
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
Access rights to Published version: Open Access (Creative Commons)
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 June 2018
Date of first compliant Open Access: 18 June 2018
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
103341/Z/13/Z Wellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269
103351/Z/13/ZWellcome Trusthttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100010269
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