TY - GEN AU - Bill Forsythe AU - Joseph Melling TI - Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 SN - 9781138868243 PY - 2014///1202 CY - Oxford PB - Routledge N2 - This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care ER -