Title Cure, comfort, and safe custody : public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth century England / Leonard D. Smith.

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Description	1 online resource (ix, 310 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303) and index.
Contents	The rise of the public asylum -- Asylum management -- 'Waste stuff': peopling the asylum -- 'The most essential instruments': from keepers to attendants -- Inside the asylum -- Treatment and care -- Useful occupation -- With due restraint -- Conclusions: in pursuit of care.
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Subject	Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Psychiatric hospital care.
	England.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- History -- 19th century.
	Psychiatric hospitals.
	Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
	History, 19th Century.
	England.
Chronological Term	1800 - 1899
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Smith, Leonard D., 1947- Cure, comfort, and safe custody. London ; New York : Leicester University Press, 1999 0718500946 9780718500948 (DLC) 98026009 (OCoLC)39257340
ISBN	9780567240415 (electronic book)
	056724041X (electronic book)
	0718500946 (hardcover)
	9780718500948