Mental Disability in Victorian England

Author : David Wright

Hardback

Published : Thursday 4 October 2001

ISBN : 9780199246397

Price : €222.30

Description

This work investigates the emergence of "idiot" asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it examines the social history of institutionalization and the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came.

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