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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Norbert Finzsch; Robert Jütte; German Historical Institute in London. |
ISBN: | 0521534488 9780521534482 |
OCLC Number: | 772636737 |
Notes: | Based on revised versions of papers delivered at a conference held at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C., from June 6-9, 1992. |
Description: | 381 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: -- Elias, Foucault, Oestreich: on a historical theory of confinement -- Four centuries of prison history: punishment, suffering, the body, and power -- pt. 1, Hospitals and asylums: -- The transformation of the American hospital -- The construction of the hospital patient in early modern France -- Before the clinic was "born": methodological perspectives in hospital history -- Syphilis and confinement: hospitals in early modern Germany -- Madhouses, children's wards, and clinics: the development of insane asylums in Germany -- Pietist universal reform and care of the sick and the poor: the medical institutions of the Francke Foundation and their social context -- pt. 2, Prisons: -- Michel Foucault's impact on the German historiography of criminal justice, social discipline, and medicalization -- The history of ideas and its significance for the prison system -- The prerogatives of confinement in Germany, 1933-1945: "protective custody" and other police strategies -- "Comparing apples and oranges?" the history of early prisons in Germany and the United States, 1800-1860 -- Reformers united: the American and the German Juvenile Court, 1882-1923 -- The medicalization of criminal law reform in Imperial Germany -- Prison reform in France and other European countries in the nineteenth century -- Surveillance and redemption: the casa di Correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome -- "Policing the bachelor subculture": the demographics of summary misdemeanants, Allegheny County Jail, 1892-1923 -- Beyond confinement? notes on the history and possible future of solitary confinement in Germany. |
Series Title: | Publications of the German Historical Institute. |
Responsibility: | edited by Norbert Finzsch and Robert Jütte. |
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"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 Read more...

