The Confinement of the Insane
Subtitle: International Perspectives, 18001965
Contributors: Roy Porter (Editor); David Wright (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 15, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780521802062
Subjects: History of medicine; Mental health services; Psychiatry; Social history; Mental Illness; Commitment and detention; Science; Science/Mathematics; Psychiatric hospitals; History; Medical / History; Psychology : Mental Illness; Science / History; 20th century; 19th century; Insane; Mentally ill
First sentence: Robben Island, an island off the southern coast of South Africa barely six miles from Cape Town, the capital city of the Cape Colony in the nineteenth century, accommodated 'lunatics', 'lepers' and the 'chronic sick' for nearly a century after 1846.