The confinement of the insane : international perspectives, 1800-1965 /

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Imprint:	Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 371 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- 20th century. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- History -- 19th century. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- 20th century. History, 20th Century. Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history. Cross-Cultural Comparison. History, 19th Century. Commitment of Mentally Ill -- history. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health. PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness. MEDICAL -- Mental Health. Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention. Psychiatric hospitals. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131174

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Other authors / contributors:	Porter, Roy, 1946-2002. Wright, David, 1965-
ISBN:	0511063431 9780511063435 0511071892 9780511071898 9780511497612 051149761X 9780521802062 0521802067 1280160500 9781280160509 9786610160501 6610160503 0511205422 9780511205422 0511119410 9780511119415 0511326513 9780511326516 9780521283342 0521283345
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This collection of essays explores the rise of the lunatic asylum, and the confinement of those deemed insane, in different national contexts during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It is therefore the first truly international history of the mental hospital, and a landmark comparative study in the history of medicine.
Other form:	Print version: Confinement of the insane. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003 0521802067

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