Book ID: CBB325630550

Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There (2015)

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Social historians starved of material providing a deep insight into the lives of patients have many questions to answer. Why were they in an asylum? What was their life really like? How were they treated? What happened to them? What was the impact on their families? [This book] shines a...light on the lives of just some of the patients admitted to the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire between 1818 and 1869. Using transcribed extracts from the surviving patients' case notes, other original asylum records and contemporary newspaper reports a picture of early asylum life is painted using the actual words of the asylum physicians, attendants, poor law officials, magistrates, asylum visitors, press reporters, patients' families and, on occasions, the patients themselves.

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Review Stef Eastoe (2016) Review of "Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There". Social History of Medicine (pp. 464-466). unapi

Review Stef Eastoe (2017) Review of "Proper People: Early Asylum Life in the Words of Those Who Were There". Social History of Medicine (pp. 715-716). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Peschier, Diana
Guillemain, Hervé
Juliette Rigondet
Evers, David L.
Valeriano, Annacarla
Klein, Alexandre
Concepts
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatric hospitals
Patients
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatry
Medicine and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
England
France
Great Britain
London (England)
Scotland
Netherlands
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