TOWARDS A SOCIAL-HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION
TOWARDS A SOCIAL-HISTORY OF INSTITUTIONALIZATION
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10.1080/03071028308567552
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发表时间:
1983-01-01
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1
通讯作者:
LUCKIN, B
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LUCKIN, B
There is now a small but impressive body of work concerned with relationships between scientific and medical knowledge, the professionalization of that knowledge, and the development of institutions to house inmates and patients believed to require punishment and treatment in post-enlightenment Europe and America. 1 This literature has enabled us to understand the problematic nature of social reform between the late-eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries as a whole and to come to grips with some though not all the connections between changes in socioeconomic structure and the generation of new and powerful bodies of knowledge and expertise. 2 It has also allowed us to ask questions about the relationship between the process of proletarianization and that putative'collapse of community'under early capitalism about which we still know so little. 3 What have not yet been* This paper is part of a larger project on historical aspects of community and communal supportiveness. It was presented to a conference on the history and politics of mental handicap, organized by the Society for the Social History of Medicine in Cambridge in April 1982. I am grateful to all those who commented on the paper on that occasion and also to Lesley Luckin for drawing my attention to some crucial issues in contemporary policy towards the mentally handicapped.