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Assistant Medical Officer
asylums
Author_Charlotte MacKenzie
brislington
Brislington House
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County Asylums
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George III
house
houses
John Perceval
King George III
Laverstock House
licensed
Licensed Houses
Lord Chancellor's Visitors
lunacy
Lunacy Commissioners
Lunacy Reform
Lunacy Reform Movement
Madhouse Keeper
madhouses
Mechanical Restraint
Medical Superintendent
Moral Insanity
Pauper Admissions
Pauper Lunatics
Pauper Patients
private
Private Asylum
Private Madhouses
Samuel's Sons
St Leonards
Ticehurst Private Asylum
William Finch
Product details
- ISBN 9780415865456
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 25 Jun 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The madhouse often figures prominently in popular conceptions of the nineteenth century, yet little is known about the realities of private institutions. In Psychiatry for the Rich, Charlotte MacKenzie examines the history of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex to explore the social history of madness and the impact of politics and popular opinion. She details the backgrounds of the patients, their own descriptions of the asylum as well as changes in the institution through the lunacy reforms and developments in medical theory.
Challenging many of the accepted views of the Victorian asylum, Money, Medicine and Madness is the most revealing account of the trade in lunacy in the nineteenth century.
