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Mental disability in Victorian England : the Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901 /

Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood as a case-study, this work looks into the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Wright examines the social history of institutionalisation.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, David, 1965-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press, 2001.
Series:Oxford historical monographs.
Subjects:
Earlswood Asylum > History.
Earlswood Asylum.
Earlswood Asylum
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care > England > History > 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric > history
History, 19th Century
Persons with Intellectual Disabilities > history
England
Europe.
Modern.
History.
MEDICAL.
People with mental disabilities > Institutional care
1800-1899
Electronic books.
History
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