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cord-264203-7dnz9yaa	Coldefy, Magali	The geography of institutional psychiatric care in France 1800–2000: Historical analysis of the spatial diffusion of specialised facilities for institutional care of mental illness	2010-10-10		.txt	text/plain	11259	493	43	It seems that trends depend on national context since a rather contrasting American study (Hunter, Shannon, & Sambrook, 1986) , reports the emergence and diffusion of public 'lunatic asylums' in the United States during the 19th century, demonstrating how over time the establishment of these facilities spread from the north-east to the west of the country. To investigate spatial diffusion of psychiatric hospitals in France from the 19th century to the present day, the initial task involved building an original historical database of psychiatric hospitals, their location and date of establishment, indicating the points at which, in different parts of France, asylum facilities were first adopted as innovative care institutions for the mentally ill. For example, a psychiatric ward in a general hospital, could have constituted an 'acceptable' way of caring for people with mental health problems in a département and such provision may have resulted in a delay in the establishment of a dedicated asylum facility in that area, or progressive independent institutions may have played a role in the dissemination of alienist ideas in psychiatry.	./cache/cord-264203-7dnz9yaa.txt	./txt/cord-264203-7dnz9yaa.txt