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Paperback Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane Book

ISBN: 3030416429

ISBN13: 9783030416423

Private Madhouses in England, 1640-1815: Commercialised Care for the Insane

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This book examines the origins and early development of private mental health-care in England, showing that the current spectacle of commercially-based participation in key elements of service provision is no new phenomenon. In 1815, about seventy per cent of people institutionalised because of insanity were being kept in private 'madhouses'. The opening four chapters detail the emergence of these madhouses and demonstrate their increasing...

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