The Confinement of the Insane
International Perspectives, 1800 1965

Description
2003 collection of international essays exploring the rise of the lunatic asylum in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
About this Author
Roy Porter was Professor of the Social History of Medicine, Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London. He died in March 2002.
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