Taking forward the debate on the role of institutions for treating and incarcerating the insane, this volume challenges recent scholarship and focuses on a wide range of factors impacting on the care and confinement of the insane since 1850.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Place: UK
Publication Year: 2012-03-22
Language: English
Number of Pages: 256
Edition: 1
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 ..