Mental Disability in Victorian England

Auteur: Wright, David (Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McMaster University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
This work investigates the emergence of "idiot" asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization and the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.
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ISBN / EAN 9780199246397
Auteur Wright, David (Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, McMaster University)
Editeur Oxford University Press