1st Edition
The Asylum as Utopia W.A.F. Browne and the Mid-Nineteenth Century Consolidation of Psychiatry
Edited By Andrew Scull
Copyright 2014
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be , first published in 1837, was of considerable significance in the history of lunacy reform in Britain. It contains perhaps the single most influential portrait by a medical author of the horrors of the traditional madhouse system. Its powerful and ideologically resonant description of the contrasting virtues of the reformed asylum, a hive of therapeutic... Read more
Introduction by Andrew Scull. What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be by W.A.F. Browne.
Biography
Andrew Scull
