Insanity, Race and Colonialism: Managing Mental Disorder in the Post-Emancipation British Caribbean, 1838-1914

About L. Smith

Leonard Smith is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham UK. He has written extensively on the history of provision for the insane in the 18th and 19th centuries. His publications include 'Cure Comfort and Safe Custody': Public Lunatic Asylums in early Nineteenth-Century England (1999) and Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England 1750-1830 (2007). He has worked in mental health services since 1973.