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Mental Disability in Victorian England

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~4h 4min
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English
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History
Institutional Care
People With Mental Disabilities
Oxford University Press 4 views
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0199246394
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David J. Wright

David Wright is a Canadian academic in the history of mental health. He works as a professor of health and social policy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

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Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood as a case-study, this work looks into the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Wright examines the social history of institutionalisation.

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