Victorian Lunacy

Victorian Lunacy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 232
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ISBN-10 : 0521172829
ISBN-13 : 9780521172820
Rating : 4/5 (820 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Victorian Lunacy by : S. E. D. Shortt

Download or read book Victorian Lunacy written by S. E. D. Shortt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1986 book explores the theory and practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry. Psychiatric theory is discussed less as an objective body of biomedical knowledge than as a product of the social turmoil that characterized the final decades of the nineteenth century.


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