Institutions of Confinement: Hospitals, Asylums, and Prisons in Western Europe and North America, 1500-1950

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Norbert Finzsch, Robert Jütte
Cambridge University Press, 1996 - History - 384 pages
A study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe which grew out of disc ussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference that attempted to assess the impacts of Foucault and Elias. Seventeen contributors from six different countries with backgrounds in history, sociology and criminology utilize various methodological approaches and reflect the various viewpoints in the theoretical debate over Foucault's work.
 

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Elias Foucault Oestreich On a Historical Theory of Confinement
3
Four Centuries of Prison History Punishment Suffering the Body and Power
17
The Transformation of the American Hospital
39
The Construction of the Hospital Patient in Early Modern France
55
Before the Clinic Was Born Methodological Perspectives in Hospital History
75
Syphilis and Confinement Hospitals in Early Modem Germany
97
Madhouses Childrens Wards and Clinics The Development of Insane Asylums in Germany
117
Pietist Universal Reform and Care of the Sick and the Poor The Medical Institutions of the Francke Foundations and Their Social Context
133
The Prerogatives of Confinement in Germany 19331945 Protective Custody and Other Police Strategies
191
Comparing Apples and Oranges? The History of Early Prisons in Germany and the United States 18001860
213
Reformers United The American and the German Juvenile Court 18821923
235
The Medicalization of Criminal Law Reform in Imperial Germany
275
Prison Reform in France and Other European Countries in the Nineteenth Century
285
Surveillance and Redemption The Casa di Correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome
301
Policing the Bachelor Subculture The Demographics of Summary Misdemeanants Allegheny County Jail 18921923
325
Beyond Confinement? Notes on the History and Possible Future of Solitary Confinement in Germany
349

Michel Foucaults Impact on the German Historiography of Criminal Justice Social Discipline and Medicalization
155
The History of Ideas and Its Significance for the Prison System
175

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