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Mental Disability in Victorian England

By David Wright

Mental Disability in Victorian England Medicine

Mental Disability in Victorian England

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Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
260
Release Date:
2001-12-06
Publication Date:
2001-11-01
Publisher:
OUP Oxford
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0199246394
ISBN13:
9780199246397
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
502 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
19 cm
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