Venetian Mental Asylums Database (VMAD), 1842-1912; VMAD

<P>Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.</P><br>VMAD, the Venetian Mental Asylums Database' provides a key resource for exploring the suffering, conceptualisation and treatment of mental illness in nineteenth-century Italy, within a broad social, cultural, economic and medical context. It is the first Italian historical psychiatric data set to be published and it is hoped that it will allow comparison between the extensive work on 'insanity's archive' in the English-speaking world and Europe (particularly France and Germany) with the much less studied Italian experience. VMAD makes use of the records of the two chief asylums for the provinces of the Veneto: San Servolo (for men) and San Clemente (for women). It is based on the files which were kept for each patient and which record a wide range of information on standardised, printed forms: patient's name, place of birth and residence, age and sex, economic status, occupation, family members, nature of the illness and patient behaviour, length of stay, as well as all the stages of treatment and other interventions (dietary, pharmacological, surgical, etc.), and their impact, throughout the patient's stay, until the patient was either discharged or died in care. VMAD records one year in five, beginning with 1842 for the men (San Servolo) and in 1873 for the women (San Clemente, the year it opened), and ends in 1912. It records 5,701 admittances, corresponding to 4,261 different patients, of whom 2,492 men and 2,129 women. The preparation and publication of VMAD, by Egidio Priani and David Gentilcore, was undertaken as part of the Economic and Social Research Council research grant 'Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930'.<br><B>Main Topics</B>:<BR><br>Patient records of the two Venetian insane asylums, for men and women, 1842-1912, providing complete information on admissions, personal data, diagnosis and treatment, and discharge

<P>摘要版权归英国数据服务（UK Data Service）及数据收集版权所有者所有。</P><br>威尼斯精神病院数据库（VMAD，Venetian Mental Asylums Database）为探究19世纪意大利精神疾病的痛苦经历、概念化阐释与治疗方式提供了核心资源，其研究语境涵盖社会、文化、经济及医学等多个维度。它是首个公开的意大利历史精神病学数据集，有望促成英语世界及欧洲（尤其是法国与德国）在‘疯癫档案’领域的丰富研究成果，与研究相对匮乏的意大利经验之间的对比分析。VMAD利用了威尼托地区两所主要精神病院的记录：圣塞尔沃洛（San Servolo，男性）与圣克莱门特（San Clemente，女性）。该数据库基于每位患者的存档文件，这些文件通过标准化印刷表格记录了广泛信息：患者姓名、出生及居住地点、年龄与性别、经济状况、职业、家庭成员、疾病性质与行为表现、住院时长，以及患者住院期间直至出院或在院死亡前的所有治疗阶段与其他干预措施（饮食、药理、外科等）及其效果。VMAD采用每五年记录一年的方式，男性（圣塞尔沃洛）数据始于1842年，女性（圣克莱门特，该院成立之年）始于1873年，数据截止至1912年。数据库共记录5701次入院记录，对应4261名不同患者，其中男性2492人，女性2129人。VMAD的筹备与发布由埃吉迪奥·普里亚尼（Egidio Priani）和大卫·詹蒂尔科尔（David Gentilcore）负责，是经济与社会研究理事会（Economic and Social Research Council）研究资助项目《粗糙皮肤：意大利的玉米、糙皮病与社会，1750-1930》（'Rough Skin: Maize, Pellagra and Society in Italy, 1750-1930'）的一部分。<br><B>核心主题</B>:<BR><br>1842-1912年威尼斯两所男女精神病院的患者记录，涵盖入院、个人数据、诊断与治疗及出院的完整信息