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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England—using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.
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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England—using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.
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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

by David Wright
Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

by David Wright

Overview

Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England—using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199246397
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/06/2001
Series: Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

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