Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900 by Andrew Scull

Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900

Andrew Scull

442 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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The routine confinement of the deranged in a network of specialized and purposely built asylums is essentially a 19th-century phenomenon. Likewise, it is only from the Victorian era that a newly self-conscious and organized profession of psychiatr...

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