The prerogative of asylumdom
Subtitle: social, cultural, and administrative aspects of the institutional treatment of the insane in nineteenth-century Britain
By: D.J. Mellett.
Series: Modern British history ;; 14
Publisher: Garland
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Mental health laws -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 237-254.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Cambridge, 1977)
Includes index.