Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era by Andrew Scull

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

Andrew Scull

400 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction psychology informative reflective slow-paced
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The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collec...

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