Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland by Kathryn Burtinshaw
Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Kathryn Burtinshaw

Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

Kathryn Burtinshaw with John Burt

326 pages missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction historical history dark informative reflective slow-paced
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n the first half of the nineteenth-century treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and tre...

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