The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of patients. In this paper, admission records and case notes of a county asylum are used to consider the attitudes of those confined within it, and how the asylum was understood by patients relative to othe...
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Elsevier
1998
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1673/ |