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Time: 8 hours
Level: Introductory
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 Introduction Resource- In this unit we consider some of the issues raised by Howard Mitchell who has made a special study of Lennox Castle Hospital, about ten miles from Glasgow at Lennoxtown. His study is the subject of the...
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| | 1 Lennox Castle Hospital: a twentieth century institution
- 1.1 Finding out about Lennox Castle Resource
- Lennox Castle was typical of large institutions built by local authorities in the 1930s and was the largest in the UK. At the time it opened it was considered to be 100 years ahead of its time by specialists...
- 1.2 Explaining what we find out Resource
- How do we make sense of what we saw? The video tells the story of the hospital in dramatic tones: we hear about a riot, escapes, punishment and drug treatment regimes. But we also hear about football matches,...
- Regulations on visiting patients in Lennox Castle, c.1950 Resource
- 1.3 On being an insider and a researcher Resource
- The two roles of practitioner and researcher are not always easy to combine. Sometimes it's difficult to detach yourself from situations and stand back when you know you've been a part of practice which...
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| | 2 Institutions: an outline history
- 2.1 Institutions and segregation Resource
- In this section I'll be compressing most of the history of legislation and provision which came to form the basis of health and social care over the last two centuries into quite a small space! You may...
- 2.2 Social Darwinism and eugenics Resource
- Nineteenth century reformers combined their new medical diagnoses with a concern to tackle what they saw as the social causes of cruelty and incapacity. Two theories dominated: social Darwinism and eugenics....
- 2.3 Treatment regimes Resource
- As well as asylums which housed people with mental illness and learning difficulties there was a turn towards a style of mass provision generally.
- Activity: segregation today Resource
- Just pause for a moment and think about who gets segregated in society today, where, and why. Write down any groups of people you can think of.
- 2.4 The emergence of asylum professionals Resource
- Asylums and institutions were not only sites of care and control, they were also places where people worked as staff and developed professional expertise. The people who worked there also experienced segregation,...
- Skills for the attendants Resource
- In the box below are the examination questions for attendants sitting the MPA's Diploma in 1893. Candidates were charged 2s 6d (approximately one tenth of an average weekly wage) and resits cost one shilling....
- Resistance to institutions Resource
- Read R. A. Parker's peice 'The persistent image. As you read it through note down an example for each of what Parker suggests are the ‘four forms of reinforcement’ of attitudes towards institutional care...
- 2.5 Campaigns for change Resource
- Here we consider where some of the pressure for change was coming from in the earlier part of the twentieth century. Throughout the period of institutional domination there were, as we've seen from the...
- Activity: living through change Resource
- 1908 – Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded
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