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The prerogative of asylumdom : social, cultural, and administrative aspects of the institutional treatment of the insane in nineteenth-century Britain / D.J. Mellett.
LIBRA RC450.G7 M44 1982
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mellett, D. J. (David J.), 1947-
- Series:
- Modern British history ; 14.
- Modern British history ; 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mentally ill--Care--Great Britain--History.
- Mentally ill.
- Mentally ill--Care.
- Mental health laws.
- History.
- Psychiatric hospitals.
- Great Britain.
- Psychiatric hospitals--Great Britain--History.
- Mental health laws--Great Britain--History.
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Institutionalization--history.
- Mental Disorders--history.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hospitals, Psychiatric--history.
- United Kingdom.
- Institutionalization--history.
- Mental Disorders--history.
- Physical Description:
- 257 pages ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Garland, 1982.
- Notes:
- "This monograph is a shortened, but otherwise unrevised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of Cambridge in 1977."--Pref.
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages 237-254.
- ISBN:
- 0824051599 :
- OCLC:
- 8667257
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