Structures of confinement in nineteenth-century asylums, using England and Ontario as a comparative study
Traditionally, historians of the care of the insane have understood their work as a branch of medical history. This paper focuses instead on the administrative structures of nineteenth century asylums. These are geographically specific and historically contingent. The development of medico-legal di...
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Elsevier
2000
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1674/ |