Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England (2000)
Jackson, Mark (Author)
Manchester University Press
Physical Details: x + 273 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English
Review Garton, Stephen (2003) Review of "Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late Victorian and Edwardian England". Victorian Studies (p. 575).
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