The politics of the voluntary admission: the Holloway Sanatorium scandal of
1895
Akinobu Takabayashi
The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College
London
Voluntary admission to mental hospitals, which increased from 1890-1914, has
been understood as a new humanitarian and preventive measure that English
alienists proposed as an alternative to the Lunacy Act of 1890. Behind this
admission system, however, alienists attempted to secure and develop
psychiatric jurisdiction. At Holloway Sanatorium in Surrey, alleged abuse of
voluntary admission led to a scandal in 1895.
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