What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate Interesting review of the reasons and need for control in early asylums. Review: Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900User Review - Beth - GoodreadsStudy of the asylum movement in Great Britain and the beginnings of professional psychiatry. Compelling, if a bit harsh on the psychiatric profession. Read full review Related books
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Common terms and phrasesadmissions alienists Andrew Annual Report asylum doctors asylum superintendents authority Bedlam Revisited Bethlem brain Buckinghamshire Bucknill Cambridge claims classes Commissioners in Lunacy confinement consequence County Asylum curable cure derangement deviance disease East Sussex Edinburgh efforts eighteenth century England English establishment evidence existing G.E. Berrios Hanwell Henry Maudsley History Hospital House of Commons human Ibid inmates inquiry insanity instance institutions John Conolly Journal of Mental London Longman Luke's Lunacy Commissioners lunacy reform Lunatic Asylum mad-doctors madhouse keepers madhouses magistrates Medicine mental disorder Mental Science Metropolitan Commissioners mind moral treatment nineteenth century Observations patients Pauper Lunatics persons Phrenology physical physician Poor Law population Porter practice private madhouses profession professional Psychiatry Record Office restraint Samuel Tuke Select Committee social society therapeutic Thomas Ticehurst tion Trade in Lunacy treatment of insanity Tuke University Press Victorian W.A.F. Browne W.F. Bynum William workhouses York Retreat References to this bookFrom other books
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