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Wise, Sarah
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Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty, and the mad-doctors in England / Sarah Wise.
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Wise, Sarah
Subjects
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
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Berkeley, Calif. : Counterpoint, 2013.
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xxii, 473 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
1619021714
9781619021716
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.
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