This Way Madness Lies : The Asylum and Beyond
by
Mike Jay
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0500518971
ISBN-13
9780500518977
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 15th, 2016
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
1,204 grams
Dimensions
29.00 x 19.10 x 2.90 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historyMental health services
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Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.
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