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This Way Madness Lies

- The Asylum and Beyond

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Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780500518977
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 256
  • Udgivet:
  • 15. september 2016
  • Størrelse:
  • 191x290x29 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 1204 g.
  • BLACK WEEK
Leveringstid: Ukendt - mangler pt.

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Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.

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