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This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified
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Committed to the State Asylum examines the evolution of the asylum as the response to insanity in nineteenth-century Que
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Victorian Periodicals and Victorian Society, originally published in 1994, has become an indispensable reference work fo
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Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best Books of January In the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning
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Grob Gerald N. : Gerald N. Grob is the Henry E. Sigerist Professor of the History of Medicine Emeritus at Rutgers Uni
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The iconic image of the lunatic asylum is one that often leaves us wondering what went on inside these imposing building
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How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschi
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Late nineteenth-century England witnessed the emergence of a vociferous and well-organzied movement against the use of l
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