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Diana Peschier
Lost Souls [EPUB ebook]
Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum

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How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 224 ● ISBN 9781786726544 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2019 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 7186973 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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