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

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

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Bibliographic Details
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.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention.
Psychiatric hospitals.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11131174
Hidden Bibliographic Details
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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