The first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England, this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2007-07-23
Language: English
Number of Pages: 306
Edition: 1
Volume: 28
Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
Tracing development of scientific sociology from Comte onwards, this book provides a narrative history of figures, ideas, and schools that lie behind ..