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Anna Shepherd - Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England, Inbunden

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Institutionalizing the Insane in Nineteenth-Century England

Av Anna Shepherd

Del i serien Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system.
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Anna Shepherd is Alumni Relations & Partnerships Manager at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. She has worked in publishing at the Institute of Historical Research and in contemporary health contexts, such as the Centre for Suicide Research, Oxford University and the London School of Hyiene & Tropical Medicine. She has published several papers on her work at a variety of national and international conferences, as well as articles and book chapters.

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'there is much data to enjoy in Institutionalizing the Insane. The information about companions and voluntary boarders is especially valuable, and the direct comparison between two differing asylums particularly useful.' Social History of Medicine 'I've found Institutionalizing the Insane to be a tremendously effective, informative book.' Joanne Bailey Muses on History 'its value to future research is to be lauded providing, as it does, so much empirical and anecdotal evidence on the subject.' Mad, bad and desperate - crime and insanity in Victorian England 'provides a fantastic window into the lives and worries of nineteenth-century people ... A solid study, this book will surely appeal to those interested into the complex lives and treatments of the insane during the nineteenth century.' From the Hands of Quacks

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