Waltraud Ernst is Professor of the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University

Introduction: Therapy and empowerment, coercion and punishment: historical and contemporary perspectives on work, psychiatry and society - Waltraud Ernst
1. The role of work in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century treatises on moral treatment in France, Tuscany and Britain - Jane Freebody
2. Therapeutic work and mental illness in America, c. 1830-1970 - Ben Harris
3. Travails of madness: New Jersey, 1800-70 - James Moran
4. From blasting powder to tomato pickles: patient work at the provincial mental hospitals in British Columbia, Canada, c. 1885-1920 -Kathryn McKay
5. 'Useful both to the patients as well as to the State'. Patient work in colonial mental hospitals in South Asia, c. 1818-1948 - Waltraud Ernst
6. 'A powerful agent in their recovery': work as treatment in British West Indian lunatic asylums, 1860-1910 - Leonard Smith
7. Work and activity in mental hospitals in modern Japan, c. 1868-2000 - Akira Hashimoto
8. Patient work and family care at Iwakura, Japan, c. 1799-1970 - Osamu Nakamura
9. Work and occupation in Romanian psychiatry, c. 1838-1945 - Valentin-Veron Toma
10. Between therapeutic instrument and exploitation of labour force: patient work in rural asylums in Württemberg, c. 1810-1945 - Thomas Müller
11. The patient's view of work therapy: the mental hospital Hamburg-Langenhorn during the Weimar Republic - Monika Ankele
12. They were 'improved', punished and cured: the construction of 'workshy', 'industrious' and (non-)compliant inmates in forced labour facilities in the First Republic of Austria between 1918 and 1938 - Sonja Hinsch
13. Useful members of society or motiveless malingerers? Occupation and malingering in British asylum psychiatry, 1870-1914 - Sarah Chaney
14. Work and the Irish District Asylums during the late nineteenth century - Oonagh Walsh
15. From work and occupation to occupational therapy. The policies of professionalisation in English mental hospitals from 1919 to 1959 - John Hall
16. Work is therapy? The function of employment in British psychiatric care after 1959 - Vicky Long
17. The hollow gardener and other stories: reason and relation in the work cure - Jennifer Laws
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