Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England
Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history)2013
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12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.
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London : Vintage Books, 2013.
Collation:
xxii, 473 pages : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 20 cm
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Originally published: London: Bodley Head, 2012.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780099541868 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
362.20941362.2094109034
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English
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BRN:
807998
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