Bedlam: London's Hospital for the MadAn absorbing look at the history and development of mental health care in Britain which has emanated from Bethlem hospital—one of the country’s first and mostnotorious psychiatric hospitals. The author shows how much more there is to the story of Bedlam, providing a compelling exploration of an institution which continues to fascinate today, carefully balancing the gore, depravity and madness against a touching, sensitive and often comic story. |
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Humble Beginnings | 16 |
The New Bedlam | 32 |
Dr Hale and Mrs Clerke | 48 |
Copyright | |
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abuse Account admission admitted Air Loom alleged Anon Apothecary appointed asked Battie's Bedlam behaviour Bethlem Hospital Bethlem Physician Bethlem Royal Hospital Bethlem's Governors Bill Bridewell and Bethlem Bridewell Hospital building cells century chained charitable Clerke College of Physicians Commissioners Corporation of London Court criminal lunatics Crooke Crooke's Crowther cure Dr Monro Edward Monro galleries George Rose Hadfield History of Bethlem hospital's incurable inmates insane inspection James Hadfield James Norris James Tilly Matthews John Haslam John Monro Keeper King Kinleside Lord Lunacy Commission mad doctor madhouse reform Matthews's medical officers medicines mental health Moorfields Nicholson O'Donoghue Parliament patients pauper lunatics person practice prison private madhouses Privy Council regime Retreat Royal College Samuel Tuke Select Committee St George's Fields St Luke's Hospital Steward Surgeon Thomas Monro Tom O'Bedlams treatment Truelock Tuke Tuke's Tuthill visitors Wakefield Wallett Ward William Battie wrote York Asylum