Studies in Social History The trade in lunacy: a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0710070519
ISBN 13
9780802018304
Category
Social history
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Publication Year
1972
Publisher
Pages
361pp.
Series Name
Abstract
In this study the author traces the rise and fall of the madhouse system, focussing attention in its heyday in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Number of Copies
1
