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Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England, Hardback Book

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England Hardback

Part of the Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine series

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The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845.

Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.

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