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An historical overview of privately owned mental health institutions in England and Wales between the seventeenth century and the 1970s. This in depth study combines historic reports, statistics, and other important artifacts to provide a clear picture of the successes and failures of such institutions. A number of manuscripts and historic plates are provided for reference in an extensive database of resources and their origins.
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Mentally ill, England, Psychiatric hospitals, Institutional care, Care, History, asylum, mental hospital, mental ward, hospital, historical medicine, medicine, medical history, psych, sanitarium, madhouse, lunatic asylum, lunacy, mental health treatment, private hospital, Commitment of Mentally Ill, Mental Disorders, Mentally ill, great britain, Mentally ill, carePlaces
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The trade in lunacy: a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
1972, Routledge and K. Paul
in English
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The trade in lunacy: a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
1971, Routledge and K. Paul
in English
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Trade in Lunacy: A Study of Private Madhouses in England in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
1971, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Limited
in English
0802001556 9780802001559
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Bibliography: p. 331-345.
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A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors.
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