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

An interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe.

Norbert Finzsch (Edited by), Robert Jütte (Edited by)

9780521560702, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 January 1997

382 pages, 8 b/w illus. 15 tables
23.6 x 16 x 2.7 cm, 0.72 kg

"...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

A major interdisciplinary study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe, this book resulted from discussions between its two editors about their work on the history of hospitals, poor relief, deviance, and crime, and a subsequent conference held in 1992 by the German Historical Institute 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.

Preface
Contributors
Introduction: 1. Elias, Foucault, Oestereich: on a historical theory of confinement Norbert Finzsch
2. Four centuries of prison history: punishment, suffering, the body, and power Pieter Spierenburg
Part I. Hospitals and Asylums: 3. The transformation of the American hospital Morris J. Vogel
4. The construction of the hospital patient in early modern France Colin Jones
5. Before the clinic was 'born': methodological perspectives in hospital history Guenter B. Risse
6. Syphilis and confinement: hospitals in early modern Germany Robert Jütte
7. Madhouses, children's wards, and clinics: the development of insane asylums in Germany Christina Vanja
8. Pietist universal reform and care of the sick and the poor: the medical institutions of the Francke Foundations and their social context Renate Wilson
Part II. Prisons: 9. Michel Foucault's impact on the German historiography of criminal justice, social discipline, and medicalization Martin Dinges
10. The history of ideas and its significance for the prison system Gerlinda Smaus
11. The prerogratives of confinement in Germany, 1933–45: 'protective custody' and other police strategies Robert Gellately
12. 'Comparing apples and oranges?' The history of early prisons in Germany and the United States Norbert Finzsch
13. Reformers United: the American and the German juvenile court, 1882–1923 Karl Tilman Winkler
14. The medicalization of criminal law reform in imperial Germany Richard F. Wetzell
15. Prison reform in France and other European countries in the nineteeth century Patricia O'Brien
16. Surveillance and redemption: the casa di correzione of San Michele a Ripa in Rome Luigi Cajani
17. 'Policing the bachelor subculture': the demographies of summary misdemeanants, Allegheny County jail, 1892–1923 Lynne M. Adrian and Joan E. Crowley
18. Beyond confinement? Notes on the history and possible future of solitary confinement in Germany Sebastian Scheerer
Index.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]