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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901 - Oxford Historical Monographs Wright, David (, Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McMaster University)
Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901 - Oxford Historical Monographs
Wright, David (, Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McMaster University)
This work investigates the emergence of "idiot" asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization and the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.
256 pages, bibliography, index
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 6, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199246397 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 256 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 148 × 24 mm · 449 g |
| Language | English |