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Masters of Bedlam : the transformation of the mad-doctoring trade / Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie, Nicholas Hervey.
LIBRA RC450.G7 S284 1996
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scull, Andrew, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Psychiatrists--Great Britain--Biography.
- Psychiatrists.
- Psychiatry.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Psychiatry--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This book provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums-those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages [275]-354) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0691034117
- OCLC:
- 34476876
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