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Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England [PDF ebook]

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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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Format PDF ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9781781440568 ● Publisher Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3121269 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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