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This article examines the management and meaning of post-mortem examinations, and the spatial ordering of patients' death, dissection and burial at the Victorian asylum, referencing a range of institutional contexts and exploiting a case study of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum. The routinizing of dissection and the development of the dead-house from a more marginal asylum sector to a lynchpin of laboratory medicine is stressed. External and internal pressure to modernize pathological research facilities is assessed alongside governmental, public and professional critiques of variable necroscopy practices. This is contextualized against wider issues and attitudes surrounding consent and funereal rituals. Onus is placed on tendencies in anatomizing insanity towards the conversion of deceased lunatics – pauper lunatics especially – into mere pathological specimens. On the other hand, significant but compromised resistance on the part of a minority of practitioners, relatives and the wider public is also identified.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: Interpreting psychiatric spaces -- PART I Madhouses, asylums, and hospitals in context -- 2 Site and vantage: Sculptural decoration and spatial experience in early modern Dutch asylums -- 3 The architecture of confinement: Urban public asylums in England, 1750-1820 -- 4 Placing psychiatric practices: On the spatial configurations and contests of professional labour in late-nineteenth century Germany -- PART II Case studies in psychiatric space -- 5 A space for moral management: The York Retreat's influence on asylum design -- 6 Scaling the asylum: Three geographies of the Inverness District Lunatic Asylum (Craig Dunain) -- 7 'This coy and secluded dwelling': Broadmoor asylum for the criminally insane -- PART III Beyond the institution -- 8 Architectures of madness: Informal and formal spaces of treatment and care in nineteenth-century New Jersey -- 9 Community spaces and psychiatric family care in Belgium, France, and Germany: A comparative study -- PART IV Race and space in colonial asylums -- 10 The great asylum laundry: Space, classification, and imperialism in Cape Town -- 11 Madness and colonial spaces-British India, c. 1800-1947 -- PART V Architects and institutions -- 12 The modern mental hospital in late nineteenth-century Germany and Austria: Psychiatric space and images of freedom and control -- 13 The architect and the pauper asylum in late nineteenth-century England: G. T. Hine's 1901 review of asylum space and planning -- PART VI Spatial players: Professionals and patients -- 14 Controlling space, transforming visibility: Psychiatrists, nursing staff, violence, and the case of haematoma auris in German psychiatry c. 1830 to 1870.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 - Persecution and Suffering -- Reflections on the Christians of Egypt Today (by Ramez Atallah) -- Devotional Pause: Psalm 91 (by Gary Nelson) -- Cross-Check: Palestinians - Suffering Occupation (by Daniel Bannoura) -- Witness 1: Aydin - A Convert Who Was Obliged to Leave His Country -- Witness 2: Tahia - Choosing to Follow Jesus Cost Her Marriage -- Global Cross-Check: Victims or Heroes in the Search for Meaning? (by Gordon Showell-Rogers) -- Leading Prophetically -- Questions for Reflection -- 2 - Emigration -- Biblical and Theological Reflections on Emigration (by Elie Haddad) -- Devotional Pause: Psalm 18 (by Gary Nelson) -- A Syrian Perspective (by Harout Seliman) -- An Egyptian Perspective (by Ramez Atallah) -- A Palestinian Perspective (by Daniel Bannoura) -- Witness 1: Kamel's Temporary Move Abroad Lasted Thirty Years -- Witness 2: Ash's Journey to the USA via Lebanon -- Global Cross-Check: Canada - A Nation of Immigrants (by Greg Butt) -- Leading Prophetically: Being Faithful to the Call of God -- Questions for Reflection -- 3 - Hopelessness and Despair -- A Theology of Tears: Cry with Us (by Yohanna Katanacho) -- Devotional Pause: Psalm 27 (by Gary Nelson) -- Cross-Check: Syria as a Wake-up for the Church (by Nehla Issac) -- The Book of Psalms for Situations of Conflict and Overt Evil (by Yohanna Katanacho) -- Witness 1: Rebecca with Suzanne, Teresa and Fr Simon -- Witness 2: Nadia with Tala and Sahar -- Global Cross-Check: From Hopelessness and Despair to Anger and Courage (by Shane McNary) -- Responding to Hopelessness and Despair: Four Causes for Hope (by Helen Paynter) -- Leading Prophetically -- Questions for Reflection -- 4 - Minoritization -- From Minority Status to the Fateful Embrace of Minoritization (by Martin Accad).