Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
by:
David Wright (author)
This work contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of idiot asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization, privileging the...
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This work contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of idiot asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients c
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780199246397 (0199246394)
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
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