Title Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots : a History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland.

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Havertown : Pen and Sword, 2017.

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Description	1 online resource (219 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
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Contents	Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 Lunatic Ancestors; Chapter 2 The Pre-Nineteenth Century Setting; Chapter 3 Lunacy Legislation in Great Britain and Ireland; Chapter 4 English Asylums in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 5 Welsh Asylums in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 6 Scottish Asylums in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 7 Irish Asylums in the Nineteenth Century; Chapter 8 The Channel Islands; Chapter 9 The Isle of Man; Chapter 10 Life in the Asylum; Chapter 11 Asylum Staff; Chapter 12 The Criminal Lunatic; Chapter 13 Imbeciles and Idiots.
	Chapter 14 EpilepsyChapter 15 General Paralysis of the Insane (GPI); Chapter 16 Puerperal Insanity; Chapter 17 Suicide; Chapter 18 Diagnoses and Causes; Chapter 19 Treatments; Chapter 20 Biographies; Glossary; Bibliography.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Mentally ill -- Care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
	Mentally ill -- Care.
	Great Britain.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Mentally ill -- Great Britain -- Social conditions.
	Mentally ill.
	Social conditions.
	United Kingdom.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Burt, John R. F.
Other Form:	Print version: Burtinshaw, Kathryn. Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots : A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Havertown : Pen and Sword, ©2017 9781473879034
ISBN	9781473879058
	1473879051
	1473879043
	9781473879041 (electronic book)
	9781473879034
	1473879035

Title Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots : a History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland.

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