Article ID: CBB469644674

Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (2018)

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Painting a picture of the lives of the early modern mad outside institutions has not yet been done in the Netherlands. However, by looking at notarial documents and admission requests, we can learn more about how the mad were cared for outside the institutions, and the impact their behaviour had on the people close to them. Investigating these sources for both Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries has unravelled a story of community care in which families played a key role and used their options strategically. Furthermore, it has also revealed a complicated story about the way communities dealt with the behaviour of the mad, involving great personal struggles, breaking points and compassion.

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Authors & Contributors
Dondici, Danilo
Peschier, Diana
Guillemain, Hervé
Monika Ankele
Scrimgeour, David
Valeriano, Annacarla
Concepts
Medicine and society
Psychiatric hospitals
Patients
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Health care
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
Germany
United Kingdom
Hamburg-Langenhorn (Germany)
England
Weimar Republic (1919-1933)
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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