Book ID: CBB000774000

The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845--1914 (2006)

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Melling, Joseph (Author)
Forsythe, Bill (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xvii + 278 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Review Digby, Anne (2008) Review of "The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845--1914". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 283). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Taylor, Steven J.
Kornhuber, Johannes
Braun, Birgit
Crawley, Alex
Wallis, Jennifer
Smith, Leonard D.
Journals
History of Psychiatry
Social History of Medicine
Health and History
The Lancet
Journal of Medical Biography
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Publishers
Routledge
University of Toledo
University of Illinois at Chicago
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Children
Medicine and government
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
People
Specht, Gustav Nikolaus
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Places
England
New Zealand
Great Britain
Espírito Santo (Brazil)
Ohio (U.S.)
Scotland
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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