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Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 : a social history of madness in comparative perspective /
A valuable guide to current work in the social and cultural history of insanity. It provides a comprehensive summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
1999.
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| Colección: | Studies in the social history of medicine.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Accommodating madness: new research in the social history of insanity and institutions JOSEPH MELLING; The English experience of the county lunatic asylum; The county asylum in the mixed economy of care, 1808 1845 LEONARD D. SMITH; The asylum and the Poor Law: the productive alliance PETER BARTLETT; Politics of lunacy: central state regulation and the Devon Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 1845 1914 BILL FORSYTHE, JOSEPH MELLING AND RICHARD ADAIR.