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- Title: Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830
- Author : Leonard Smith
- Release Date : January 18, 2013
- Genre: History,Books,Professional & Technical,Medical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 5456 KB
Description
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750–1830 constitutes the first comprehensive study of the philanthropic asylum system in Georgian England. Using original research and drawing upon a wide range of expertise on the history of mental health this book demonstrates the crucial role of the lunatic hospitals in the early development of a national system of psychiatric institutions.
These hospitals were to form an essential historical link in the emergence of a national system of institutional provision for mentally disordered people. They provided important prototypes for the subsequent development of a network of state-sponsored lunatic asylums during the nineteenth century.
This is an impressive volume which covers various areas including:
the provincial lunatic hospitals
managing the hospital
managing the insane.
This book will interest specialist historians as well as mental health professionals and people interested in local and regional studies.