The Beer Ration in Victorian Asylums  

Oleh:

McCrae, Niall

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: History of Psychiatry vol. 15 no. 2 (Jun. 2004), page 155–175.
Topik: alcohol; asylums; Britain; diet; history; psychiatry; temperance; 19th century

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Routine distribution of alcoholic beverages to mental hospital patients would be a fanciful prospect today, yet in the formative decades of lunatic asylums, beer was standard issue. A staple item in the supposedly healthy Victorian asylum diet, beer also served as inducement for patient labour. Around the mid-1880s, this commodity was abolished throughout Britain’s mental institutions. This paper explores the factors that combined to condemn the beer barrel to asylum history, and, in particular, how this small comfort for inmates fell foul of the medicalization of the asylum and of the professional project of psychiatry.

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