Structures of confinement in nineteenth-century asylums, using England and Ontario as a comparative study

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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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Main Author:	Bartlett, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Elsevier 2000
Subjects:	nineteenth-century asylums lunacy administrative law poor law England Ontario Toronto
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1674/

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