Graham Mooney is an assistant professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the history of public health, historical demography and historical epidemiology and is currently writing a book on infectious disease surveillance in Victorian Britain.Jonathan Reinarz is the director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. His research addresses the history of hospitals and medical education, and he also continues to undertake research on the social and economic history of England from 1750 to 1950, with a particular interest in the history of alcohol. He has authored The Birth of a Provincial Hospital: the early years of the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1765-1790 (Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2003) and edited Medicine and Society in the Midlands: 1750-1950 (Birmingham: Midland History Occasional Publications, 2007). His latest monograph is Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779–1939 (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009).

"The chapters as a whole deal eloquently with the underlying relationships, highly complex and sometimes controversial, between the hospitals and their visitors, especially parents in the case of sick children."– in: Wellcome History 44 (Summer 2010), 22"…this excellent and timely collection… these are very valuable contributions that develop the Porterian reorientation of medical history away from the profession and towards a wider social history of health care." – in: Medical History 54/4 (2010), 562–564"…a rich collection… Permeable Walls shows that hospital and asylum visiting raises key issues for historians…" – in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84/3 (2010), 521–522"This is a valuable addition to the history of health care."– in: SciTech Book News, September 2009"Permeable Walls offers a fascinating insight into a new area of medical history. Furthermore, these histories appear to be particularly relevant today at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients’ representatives in healthcare decision making… relevant as well as emotive."– in: H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, January 2010

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsGraham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz: Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and IssuesJonathan Reinarz: Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial EnglandMichelle Renshaw: ‘Family-Centred Care’ in American Hospitals in Late-Qing ChinaAndrea Tanner: Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children’s HospitalBruce Lindsay: Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900–50Robin L. Rohrer: Visiting Children with Cancer: The Parental Experience of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995–2005Graham Mooney: Infection and Citizenship: (Not) Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Mid-Victorian BritainKevin Siena: Stage-Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock HospitalLeonard Smith: ‘The Keeper Must Himself be Kept’: Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750–1850James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain: ‘A Disgrace to a Civilised Community’: Colonial Psychiatry and the Visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937–8Janet Miron: ‘In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth CenturyDolly MacKinnon: ‘Amusements are Provided’: Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860–c.1945Catharine Coleborne: Challenging Institutional Hegemony: Family Visitors to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s–1910sNotes on Contributors Index

Graham Mooney is an assistant professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the history of public health, historical demography and historical epidemiology and is currently writing a book on infectious disease surveillance in Victorian Britain.Jonathan Reinarz is the director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. His research addresses the history of hospitals and medical education, and he also continues to undertake research on the social and economic history of England from 1750 to 1950, with a particular interest in the history of alcohol. He has authored The Birth of a Provincial Hospital: the early years of the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1765-1790 (Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2003) and edited Medicine and Society in the Midlands: 1750-1950 (Birmingham: Midland History Occasional Publications, 2007). His latest monograph is Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779–1939 (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009).

"The chapters as a whole deal eloquently with the underlying relationships, highly complex and sometimes controversial, between the hospitals and their visitors, especially parents in the case of sick children."– in: Wellcome History 44 (Summer 2010), 22"…this excellent and timely collection… these are very valuable contributions that develop the Porterian reorientation of medical history away from the profession and towards a wider social history of health care." – in: Medical History 54/4 (2010), 562–564"…a rich collection… Permeable Walls shows that hospital and asylum visiting raises key issues for historians…" – in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84/3 (2010), 521–522"This is a valuable addition to the history of health care."– in: SciTech Book News, September 2009"Permeable Walls offers a fascinating insight into a new area of medical history. Furthermore, these histories appear to be particularly relevant today at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients’ representatives in healthcare decision making… relevant as well as emotive."– in: H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, January 2010

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsGraham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz: Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and IssuesJonathan Reinarz: Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial EnglandMichelle Renshaw: ‘Family-Centred Care’ in American Hospitals in Late-Qing ChinaAndrea Tanner: Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children’s HospitalBruce Lindsay: Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900–50Robin L. Rohrer: Visiting Children with Cancer: The Parental Experience of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995–2005Graham Mooney: Infection and Citizenship: (Not) Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Mid-Victorian BritainKevin Siena: Stage-Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock HospitalLeonard Smith: ‘The Keeper Must Himself be Kept’: Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750–1850James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain: ‘A Disgrace to a Civilised Community’: Colonial Psychiatry and the Visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937–8Janet Miron: ‘In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth CenturyDolly MacKinnon: ‘Amusements are Provided’: Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860–c.1945Catharine Coleborne: Challenging Institutional Hegemony: Family Visitors to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s–1910sNotes on Contributors Index

Graham Mooney is an assistant professor in the Institute of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. He has published widely on the history of public health, historical demography and historical epidemiology and is currently writing a book on infectious disease surveillance in Victorian Britain.Jonathan Reinarz is the director of the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Birmingham. His research addresses the history of hospitals and medical education, and he also continues to undertake research on the social and economic history of England from 1750 to 1950, with a particular interest in the history of alcohol. He has authored The Birth of a Provincial Hospital: the early years of the General Hospital, Birmingham, 1765-1790 (Stratford-upon-Avon: Dugdale Society, 2003) and edited Medicine and Society in the Midlands: 1750-1950 (Birmingham: Midland History Occasional Publications, 2007). His latest monograph is Health Care in Birmingham: The Birmingham Teaching Hospitals, 1779–1939 (Rochester: Boydell Press, 2009).

"The chapters as a whole deal eloquently with the underlying relationships, highly complex and sometimes controversial, between the hospitals and their visitors, especially parents in the case of sick children."– in: Wellcome History 44 (Summer 2010), 22"…this excellent and timely collection… these are very valuable contributions that develop the Porterian reorientation of medical history away from the profession and towards a wider social history of health care." – in: Medical History 54/4 (2010), 562–564"…a rich collection… Permeable Walls shows that hospital and asylum visiting raises key issues for historians…" – in: Bulletin of the History of Medicine 84/3 (2010), 521–522"This is a valuable addition to the history of health care."– in: SciTech Book News, September 2009"Permeable Walls offers a fascinating insight into a new area of medical history. Furthermore, these histories appear to be particularly relevant today at a time when service providers seek ways to involve patients’ representatives in healthcare decision making… relevant as well as emotive."– in: H-Disability, H-Net Reviews, January 2010

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsGraham Mooney and Jonathan Reinarz: Hospital and Asylum Visiting in Historical Perspective: Themes and IssuesJonathan Reinarz: Receiving the Rich, Rejecting the Poor: Towards a History of Hospital Visiting in Nineteenth-Century Provincial EnglandMichelle Renshaw: ‘Family-Centred Care’ in American Hospitals in Late-Qing ChinaAndrea Tanner: Care, Nurturance and Morality: The Role of Visitors and the Victorian London Children’s HospitalBruce Lindsay: Pariahs or Partners? Welcome and Unwelcome Visitors in the Jenny Lind Hospital for Sick Children, Norwich, 1900–50Robin L. Rohrer: Visiting Children with Cancer: The Parental Experience of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, 1995–2005Graham Mooney: Infection and Citizenship: (Not) Visiting Isolation Hospitals in Mid-Victorian BritainKevin Siena: Stage-Managing a Hospital in the Eighteenth Century: Visitation at the London Lock HospitalLeonard Smith: ‘The Keeper Must Himself be Kept’: Visitation and the Lunatic Asylum in England, 1750–1850James H. Mills and Sanjeev Jain: ‘A Disgrace to a Civilised Community’: Colonial Psychiatry and the Visit of Edward Mapother to South Asia, 1937–8Janet Miron: ‘In View of the Knowledge to be Acquired’: Public Visits to New York’s Asylums in the Nineteenth CenturyDolly MacKinnon: ‘Amusements are Provided’: Asylum Entertainment and Recreation in Australia and New Zealand c.1860–c.1945Catharine Coleborne: Challenging Institutional Hegemony: Family Visitors to Hospitals for the Insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s–1910sNotes on Contributors Index