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Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

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Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Medical ReferenceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1848934319
ISBN13: 9781848934313
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 1 2014
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.

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