Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 /

Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914 /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Studies in the social history of medicine
Studies in the social history of medicine.
Subject:
Psychiatric hospital care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Social psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Mental health laws -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
Mental health laws.
Psychiatric hospital care.
Social psychiatry.
United Kingdom.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11117005
Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:Melling, Joseph.
Forsythe, Bill.
ISBN:0203170687
9780203170687
9780415184410
041518441X
041518441X
9780203025789
0203025784
9781134668755
1134668759
9781134668700
1134668708
9781134668748
1134668740
9781138868243
1138868248
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-318) and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Insanity, institutions, and society, 1800-1914. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 041518441X

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