Mental Disability in Victorian England
Subtitle: the Earlswood Asylum, 1847-1901
By: David Wright.
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Earlswood Asylum -- History.; People with mental disabilities -- Institutional care -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Description: Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood as a case-study, this work looks into the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Wright examines the social history of institutionalisation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-228) and index.