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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
Mental Disability in Victorian England The Earlswood Asylum 18471901 - Oxford Historical Monographs
Author: David Wright
Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780199246397
ISBN-10: 0199246394
Publication Date: 12/6/2001
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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