Humanitarianism or control? : a symposium on aspects of nineteenth-century social reform in Britain and America / Martin J. Wiener, editor ; David Brion Davis [and others].

Houston, Texas : William Marsh Rice Universty, 1981.

84 pages ; 23 cm.

"The four articles published here were originally presented as public lectures at Rice University in March 1980, for a symposium"

Includes bibliographic references

Introduction / by Martin J. Weiner -- Social control : the uses and abuses of the concept in the history of incarceration / by David J. Rothman -- Humanitarianism or control? : some observations on the historiography of Anglo-American psychiatry / by Andrew Scull -- British emancipation as a new moral dispensation / by David Brion Davis -- Dealing with the poor in Victorian England / by David Roberts -- Nineteenth-century reformism : a discussion