Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty, and the mad-doctors in England / Sarah Wise.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wise, Sarah.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Mentally ill.

Insanity (Law)--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Insanity (Law).

Psychiatry--Great Britain--Methodology--History--19th century.

Psychiatry.

Psychiatric hospitals--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

London (England).

Physical Description:

xxii, 473 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : Counterpoint, 2013.

Contents:

1. Being "burrowsed"

2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen

3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society

4. "Oh hail, holy love!"

5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone"

6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting"

7. The woman in yellow

8. Juries in revolt

9. Dialoguing with the unseen

10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!"

Epilogue: The savage new century.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (p. [439]-447) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller fund bookplate.

ISBN:

1619021714

9781619021716

OCLC:

816564407