Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750-1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asyl…
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- ISBN: 978-1-134-18778-2
- EAN: 9781134187782
- Produktnummer: 16942365
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 306 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 4'147 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 schwarz-weiße Fotos, 11 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
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Leonard D. Smith is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of Medicine at the University of Birmingham.
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