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

by Edited by Norbert Finzsch , Robert Jütte

• ISBN13: 9780521534482
• ISBN10: 0521534488
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-30
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

A study of the development of prisons, hospitals and insane asylums in America and Europe that grew out of discussions 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.

Table of Contents

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 Jü

tte

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, 1933-1945: '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.