The asylum, the workhouse, and the voice of the insane poor in nineteenth century England

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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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Main Author:	Bartlett, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 1998
Subjects:	nineteenth-century asylum workhouse insanity patient narratives Leicestershire poor law
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1673/

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