Sökning: "asylums in Sweden"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden asylums in Sweden.

  1. 1. I den goda vårdens namn : Sinnesslövård i 1950-talets Sverige

    Författare :Sara Hansson; John Rogers; Mattias Tydén; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :History; feeble-minded; mental deficiency; IQ-testing; differentiation; institutional care; modernity; rationality; pedagogy; psychology; experts; Sweden; 1950s; welfare state; social engineering; Slagsta; Hans Forssman; Torsten Thysell; mass media; National Medical Board; individualization; Historia;

    Sammanfattning : In 1952 the Swedish parliament commissioned a total evaluation of 13,000 institutionalized individuals designated in the terminology of the day as feeble-minded. The evaluation provides a unique opportunity to attain new knowledge about how the system of institutionalized care of the feeble-minded developed, functioned and was eventually transformed. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Kriminaldårar : Sinnessjuka brottslingar och straffrihet i Sverige, ca 1850–1930

    Författare :Lars Garpenhag; John Rogers; Sofia Ling; Jenny Björkman; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of psychiatry; history of crime and criminal justice; 19th century; 20th century; Sweden; forensic psychiatry; forensic medicine; criminal lunatics; asylum; patient records; Historia; History;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to explain how the management of insane offenders operated and changed in Sweden in the approximate period 1850–1930. The investigation concerns primarily a level of practice, i.e. how insane offenders were treated in courts and insane asylums as a part of the everyday activities of these institutions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Erotic Insanity : Sex and psychiatry at Vadstena asylum, Sweden 1849-1878

    Författare :Imelda Helena Ek; Elisabeth Mansén; Karin Dirke; Maja Bondestam; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; history of psychiatry; history of medicine; asylums; moral treatment; medicine and society; history of sexuality; nineteenth century; Vadstena; Ludvig Magnus Hjertstedt; Georg Engström; Gustaf Göthlin; idéhistoria; History of Ideas;

    Sammanfattning : The early nineteenth century saw the emergence of institutional psychiatry across Europe. Aware that Sweden had fallen behind in this development, Parliament decreed in 1823 that a number of specialised institutions for the care of the insane were to be established. The Vadstena asylum, opened in 1826, was the first such institution in Sweden. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Icke som en annan människa. Psykisk sjukdom i mötet mellan psykiatrin och lokalsamhället under 1800-talets andra hälft

    Författare :Cecilia Riving; Historia; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; social deviance; patient records; psychiatry; asylum; local community; mentally ill; Sweden; 19th-century; history of psychiatry; violence; practitioner-client relationship;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to study conceptions of mental illness in Sweden during the second half of the 19th century. The central aim has been to analyze how mental illness was understood and interpreted in what was a continual interaction between medical professionals and lay people. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Kalejdoskopiska rum : Diskurs, materialitet och praktik i den decentraliserade psykiatriska vården

    Författare :Ebba Högström; Göran Cars; Catharina Nord; Maria Håkansson; Lars-Henrik Ståhl; Catharina Dyrssen; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; heterogenous space; discourse; spatial practice; materiality; architectural geography; community mental healthcare; decentralisation; deinstitutionalisation; organisation and space; built environment; Sweden; heterogena rum; diskurs; rumslig praktik; materialitet; arkitekturgeografi; sektoriserad psykiatri; decentralisering; avinstitutionalisering; organsiation och rum; byggd miljö; Sverige;

    Sammanfattning : During the period 1967-1995, Swedish mental healthcare underwent a complete re-organisation, starting with county councils taking over responsibility for mental healthcare from the state. Asylums were then phased out and mental health care moved closer to patients. LÄS MER