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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
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Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901 Hardback - 2001

by David Wright

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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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  • Title Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901
  • Author David Wright
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition.
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Clarendon Press, Oxford:
  • Publication date 2001-12-06
  • ISBN 9780199246397 / 0199246394
  • Weight 0.99 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.35 x 5.31 x 0.64 in (21.21 x 13.49 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress subjects Earlswood Asylum - History, People with mental disabilities -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001021791
  • Dewey Decimal Code 362.230
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