Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

ISBN-13: 9780099541868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 496 str.

Sarah Wise

Opis

12 separate stories of contested lunacy cases, ranging from the 1820s to the 1890s, reveal the various types of persons who came under threat of incarceration, the support that their plight aroused in the public mind and the newspapers, and doctors' shifting arguments about what constituted insanity.