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SUMMARY:Towards a Genealogy of Care: The Treatment of Scotland’s Inebria
 tes - David Beckingham (Sidney Sussex\, University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:This paper traces the legal and medical geographies of residen
 tial care for inebriates in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Sc
 otland. Legislation enabled the creation of private and later public insti
 tutions. Local authorities were never formally required to construct such 
 institutions\, however. The permissive nature of the legislation created a
 n uneven geography of treatment which I have previously examined using a f
 ramework of liberty and control\, emphasising that place played a signific
 ant part in responses to inebriety. Put simply\, the magistrates in one to
 wn might sentence an inebriate to five days in prison\, whereas those else
 where might refer an inebriate to a reformatory for up to three years. For
 mal inebriate care relied on the criminal justice system for its inmates -
  itself shaped by concerns of class and gender - but was also affected by 
 debates about the relationship between inebriety and insanity\, whose suff
 erers could be subjected to permanent detention for the good of themselves
  and of society. Against that broader landscape of police cell\, court\, p
 rison and asylum\, I argue that to understand inebriate care - and its fai
 lure - we have to grasp the movement of individuals between institutions a
 s much as we do the treatment or otherwise that was provided within them.
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