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Anna Shepherd
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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Formato PDF ● Páginas 240 ● ISBN 9781781440568 ● Editorial Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Publicado 2014 ● Descargable 6 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 3121269 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM

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