Cover -- INSANITY, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY, 1800-1914 -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- 1 Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions -- PART I The English experience of the county lunatic asylum -- 2 The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808-1845 -- 3 The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance -- 4 Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1845-1914 -- 5 The discharge of pauper lunatics from county asylums in mid-Victorian England: the case of Buckinghamshire, 1853-1872 -- PART II Therapeutic regimes in the nineteenth century -- 6 Framing psychiatric subjectivity: doctor, patient and record-keeping at Bethlem in the nineteenth century -- 7 'Destined to a perfect recovery': the confinement of puerperal insanity in the nineteenth century -- PART III On the edge: the English model and national peripheries -- 8 Establishing the 'rule of kindness': the foundation of the North Wales Lunatic Asylum, Denbigh -- 9 'The property of the whole community'. Charity and insanity in urban Scotland: the Dundee Royal Lunatic Asylum, 1805-1850 -- 10 Raising the tone of asylumdom: maintaining and expelling pauper lunatics at the Glasgow Royal Asylum in the nineteenth century -- 11 'The designs of providence': race, religion and Irish insanity -- PART IV The colonial vision -- 12 Out of sight and out of mind: insanity in early-nineteenth-century British India -- 13 'Every facility that modern science and enlightened humanity have devised': race and progress in a colonial hospital, Valkenberg Mental Asylum, Cape Colony, 1894-1910 -- PART V Reflections -- 14 Rethinking the history of asylumdom -- Select bibliography of the history of insanity -- Index.