Book ID: CBB000774001

Mental Illness and Learning Disability since 1850: Finding a Place for Mental Disorder in the United Kingdom (2006)

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Dale, Pamela (Editor)
Melling, Joseph (Editor)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xi + 234 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description “This volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850, including such things as the community, Poor Law authorities, local government and the voluntary sector.” (from the abstract)


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Authors & Contributors
Peschier, Diana
Nelson, Elizabeth
Rebecca A. Spang
Valeriano, Annacarla
Carpenter, D T
Adams, J S
Concepts
Psychiatric hospitals
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Medicine and government
Health care
Patients
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
21st century
Places
Great Britain
New Zealand
Devon (England)
England
United States
Netherlands
Institutions
National Health Service (Great Britain)
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