Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England by Anna Shepherd

Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

Anna Shepherd

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nonfiction health history medium-paced
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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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