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Out of the madhouse : from asylums to caring community? / Sandy Jeffs & Margaret Leggatt.
Van Pelt Library RC451.A82 B86 2020
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jeffs, Sandy, 1953- author.
- Leggatt, Margaret S., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mental health facilities--Employees.
- Victoria--Bundoora.
- Jeffs, Sandy, 1953-.
- Jeffs, Sandy.
- Leggatt, Margaret S.
- Larundel Psychiatric Hospital (Bundoora, Vic.)--Anecdotes.
- Larundel Psychiatric Hospital (Bundoora, Vic.).
- Psychiatric hospitals--Australia--Bundoora (Vic.)--Anecdotes.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Australia.
- Asylums--Australia--Bundoora (Vic.)--Anecdotes.
- Asylums.
- Mental health facilities--Australia--Bundoora (Vic.)--Anecdotes.
- Mental health facilities.
- Mental health facilities--Employees--Anecdotes.
- Psychiatric hospital patients--Australia--Bundoora (Vic.)--Anecdotes.
- Psychiatric hospital patients.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 255 pages : map, portraits ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- North Melbourne, Vic. : Arcadia, the general books' imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Larundel Psychiatric Hospital was 'the madhouse on the edge of town' until the 1990s, a Melbourne cultural icon shrouded in mystery in the outer suburb of Bundoora. What was it really like inside this madhouse?..." -- Back cover.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781925984262
- 1925984265
- OCLC:
- 1143738228
- Publisher Number:
- 99985625388
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