Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England
Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history)2013
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12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.
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Imprint:
London : Vintage Books, 2013.London : Vintage Books, 2013.
Collation:
xxii, 473 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2012.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099541868 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.20941362.2094
Language:
English
Subject:
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryInsanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryPsychiatry -- Corrupt practices -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th centuryGreat Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th centuryHealth and WellbeingEngland19th century, c 1800 to c 1899European historySocial & cultural historySocial services & welfare, criminology
BRN:
97804