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oapen-20.500.12657-531452022-02-25T02:52:05Z Chapter 3 Lunatics’ rights activism in Britain and the German Empire, 1870-1920 Brückner, Burkhart activism; Adolf Glöklen; c/s/x-movement; history of psychiatry; Louisa Lowe; nineteenth century; patients’ rights; twentieth century bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLW 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJD European history::HBJD1 British & Irish history This comparative study examines the emergence and political significance of lunatics’ rights activism in Europe between 1870 and 1920. In writing the history of the criticism of psychiatry, scholars have so far mainly focused on the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter, however, shows that the decades around 1900 already saw a widespread criticism ‘from below’ accompanying the professionalisation and modernisation of European psychiatry. The comparative analysis of the careers of two key campaign leaders, Louisa Lowe (1820–1901) in England and Adolf Glöklen (1861–c.1935) in Germany, reveals the similarities and differences in their motives, ways of campaigning, mobilisation success and political agency at the individual and collective level. Drawing on concepts from the political sociology of social movements and disability history, the chapter highlights the connections between early lunatics’ rights activism and socio-historical categories like ‘class’, ‘gender’ and ‘body’ and identifies these campaigns as political predecessors of the contemporary consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement. 2022-02-24T11:39:55Z 2022-02-24T11:39:55Z 2021 chapter https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53145 eng Social Histories of Medicine application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9781526154897_ch3.pdf www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526154880 Manchester University Press Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948 6110b9b4-ba84-42ad-a0d8-f8d877957cdd ab451ccd-c635-4fb8-8b9b-c9fa43801fed 05612a6c-36c4-4eb1-9c9d-a4c04452a311 Wellcome 28 Manchester Wellcome open access
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This comparative study examines the emergence and political significance of lunatics’ rights activism in Europe between 1870 and 1920. In writing the history of the criticism of psychiatry, scholars have so far mainly focused on the second half of the twentieth century. This chapter, however, shows that the decades around 1900 already saw a widespread criticism ‘from below’ accompanying the professionalisation and modernisation of European psychiatry. The comparative analysis of the careers of two key campaign leaders, Louisa Lowe (1820–1901) in England and Adolf Glöklen (1861–c.1935) in Germany, reveals the similarities and differences in their motives, ways of campaigning, mobilisation success and political agency at the individual and collective level. Drawing on concepts from the political sociology of social movements and disability history, the chapter highlights the connections between early lunatics’ rights activism and socio-historical categories like ‘class’, ‘gender’ and ‘body’ and identifies these campaigns as political predecessors of the contemporary consumer/survivor/ex-patient movement.
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