Mind-forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the RegencyAthlone Press, 1987 - 412 pages This book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession. |
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... York Asylum , right from the first launch of the project by a series of newspaper insertions in 1772 , stating that ' humane persons ' desired that ' something should be done for the relief of those unhappy suffer ers who are the ...
... York Asylum , right from the first launch of the project by a series of newspaper insertions in 1772 , stating that ' humane persons ' desired that ' something should be done for the relief of those unhappy suffer ers who are the ...
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... York retreat . Of the Hoxton asylum where Mary Lamb was confined , her brother wrote , ' the good lady of the Madhouse , and her daughter , ... love and are taken with her amazingly . ' 170 In respect of ' humanity ' , the House of ...
... York retreat . Of the Hoxton asylum where Mary Lamb was confined , her brother wrote , ' the good lady of the Madhouse , and her daughter , ... love and are taken with her amazingly . ' 170 In respect of ' humanity ' , the House of ...
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... York , 1777–1815 ' , Economic History Review , second series 37 ( 1983 ) , 218–39 ' The Changing Profile of a Nineteenth - Century Asylum : the York Retreat ' , Psychological Medicine 14 ( 1984 ) , 739-48 ' Moral Treatment at the York ...
... York , 1777–1815 ' , Economic History Review , second series 37 ( 1983 ) , 218–39 ' The Changing Profile of a Nineteenth - Century Asylum : the York Retreat ' , Psychological Medicine 14 ( 1984 ) , 739-48 ' Moral Treatment at the York ...
Contents
Orientations | 1 |
Cultures of Madness | 33 |
Confinement and its Rationales | 110 |
Copyright | |
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