Mind-forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the RegencyThis book is an exploration of the attitudes towards, and treatments for, madness in the age before the mass asylum and the emergence of the psychiatric profession. |
Contents
Orientations | 1 |
Cultures of Madness | 33 |
Confinement and its Rationales | 110 |
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Mind-forg'd Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration ... Roy Porter No preview available - 1990 |
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