Title Cure, comfort and safe custody : public lunatic asylums in early nineteenth-century England / Leonard D. Smith

Published London : Leicester University Press, 1999

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Description ix,310 pages,8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Contents Machine derived contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Rise of the Public Asylum -- 2 Asylum Management -- 3 'Waste Stuff': Peopling the Asylum -- 4 'The Most Essential Instruments': -- From Keepers to Attendants -- 5 Inside the Asylum -- 6 Treatment and Care -- 7 Useful Occupation -- 8 With Due Restraint -- Conclusions: In Pursuit of Cure -- Bibliography -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Psychiatric hospital care -- England -- History -- 19th century. Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- History -- 19th century. LC no. 98026009 ISBN 0718500946 :(bm

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