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Author Scull, Andrew, 1947-

Title Masters of Bedlam : the Transformation of the Mad-Doctoring Trade.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (376 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Note 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.
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Subject Psychiatrists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Psychiatrists.
Great Britain.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatry.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Author MacKenzie, Charlotte, 1957-
Hervey, Nicholas, 1952-
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)
1400864402 (electronic book)