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Towards a General Explanation for the Survival of the Private Asylum

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  • Graham Moon

    (Institute for the Geography of Health, School of Social and Historical Studies, University of Portsmouth, Milldam, Burnaby Road, Portsmouth PO1 3AS, England)

  • Alun E Joseph

    (Department of Geography, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada)

  • Robin Kearns

    (Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1, New Zealand)

Abstract

Taken together, the ascendancy of community care and the dominant role of the state as a funder of services have meant that private sector residential care for people with mental health problems is now a rarity in most countries. Yet private asylums have persisted in some places. The authors propose an analytical framework for understanding such ‘institutional survivals’. This framework problematises the public—private and community—asylum boundaries that have hitherto been taken for granted. The framework is applied to case studies in Canada and New Zealand. Survival of these institutions is found to be centrally associated with accommodations with legislative environments, proactive innovation, and the availability of markets.

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  • Graham Moon & Alun E Joseph & Robin Kearns, 2005. "Towards a General Explanation for the Survival of the Private Asylum," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 23(2), pages 159-172, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envirc:v:23:y:2005:i:2:p:159-172
    DOI: 10.1068/c15r
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    1. Joseph, Alun E. & Moon, Graham, 2002. "From retreat to health centre: legislation, commercial opportunity and the repositioning of a Victorian private asylum," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 55(12), pages 2193-2200, December.
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