Psychiatry concerning the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum 1792-1917
Published: 1993-03-26 | ISBN: 0415088917 | PDF | 248 pages | 3.84 MB
The lunatic asylum often figures prominently in popular conceptions of the nineteenth hundred, yet little is known about the realities of peculiar institutions. In Psychiatry for the Rich, Charlotte MacKenzie examines the history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex to examine geographically the social history of madness and the pack close of politics and popular opinion. She particulars the backgrounds of the patients, their have descriptions of the asylum as well to the degree that changes in the institution through the derangement reforms and developments in medical speculation.
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