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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

By David Wright

Book information

Publisher
Clarendon Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0199246394, 9780199246397
LCC
HV3008.G72 E278 2001
Google Books ID
1nNdKyNK9twC
Open Library ID
OL3942416M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1570407 bytes)
Series
Oxford Historical Monographs
Pages
256\256
Orientation
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Recently, we have witnessed a growing scholarly interest in the history of disability. In this book, David Wright investigates the social history of institutionalization and reveals the diversity of the "insane" population and the complexities of institutional committal in Victorian England--using the National Asylum for Idiots (Earlswood) as a case study. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care.

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