Mental disability in Victorian England the Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901

Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood as a case-study, this work looks into the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Wright examines the social history of institutionalisation

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon 2001, 2001
Series:Oxford historical monographs / Oxford historical monographs
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Collection: Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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