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1 online resource (376 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton legacy library.
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Cover; Contents. |
Summary |
Through an examination of the fascinating lives and careers of a series of nineteenth-century ""mad-doctors, "" Masters of Bedlam provides a unique perspective on the creation of the modern profession of psychiatry, taking us from the secret and shady practices of the trade in lunacy, through the utopian expectations that were aroused by the lunacy reform movement, to the dismal realities of the barracks-asylums--those Victorian museums of madness within which most nineteenth-century alienists found themselves compelled to practice. Across a century that spans the period from an unref. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Psychiatrists. |
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Great Britain. |
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Subject |
Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
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Psychiatry. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
MacKenzie, Charlotte, 1957-
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Hervey, Nicholas, 1952-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Scull, Andrew. Masters of Bedlam : The Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014 |
ISBN |
9781400864409 (electronic book) |
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1400864402 (electronic book) |
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