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Commitment of Mentally Ill - history

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  • Chapters in the history of the insane in the British Isles / by Daniel Hack Tuke.
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    Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

    Hide, Louise | Date: 2014
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    Broadmoor revealed : Victorian crime and the lunatic asylum / by Mark Stevens.

    Stevens, Mark (Archivist) | Date: 2013
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    Asylum, prison, and poorhouse : the writings and reform work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois / [editor] David L. Lightner.

    Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. | Date: 1999
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    Coercion as cure : a critical history of psychiatry / Thomas Szasz.

    Szasz, Thomas, 1920-2012. | Date: [2007], ©2007
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    I matti del Duce : manicomi e repressione politica nell'Italia fascista / Matteo Petracci.

    Petracci, Matteo | Date: [2014]
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