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

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Couverture du Anna Shepherd: Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England (PDF)

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 ● Maison d’édition Pickering & Chatto Publishers ● Publié 2014 ● Téléchargeable 6 fois ● Devise EUR ● ID 3121269 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM

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