Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England /: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sarah Wise.
• Other Names: Wise, Sarah
• Contents: 1. Being "burrowsed" -- 2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen -- 3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society -- 4. "Oh hail, holy love!" -- 5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone" -- 6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting" -- 7. The woman in yellow -- 8. Juries in revolt -- 9. Dialoguing with the unseen -- 10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!" -- Epilogue: The savage new century.
• Publisher Details: London : Bodley Head
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 473 pages), illustrations, portraits
• Subjects: 344.4104409034; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century; Insanity (Law); Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention; Psychiatric hospital patients; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatry -- Methodology; Social history; Psychisch gestoorden; Psychiatrische inrichtingen; Psychiatrische patiënten; Dwangverpleging; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- Great Britain -- history; History, 19th Century -- Great Britain; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- Great Britain -- history; Jurisprudence -- Great Britain -- history; Social Conditions -- Great Britain; London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; England -- London; Great Britain; Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781619022201; 1619022206; 9781409027959; 1409027953
• Related ISBNs: 9781847921123; 1847921124
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-438), bibliography (p. 439-447) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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