Title: Mental Disability in Victorian England
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.
Subjects: Earlswood Asylum, History, Institutional care, People with mental disabilities, People with mental disabilities, institutional care, People with mental disabilities, great britain, Asylums, great britain, Persons with Mental Disabilities, History, 19th Century, Psychiatric Hospitals, Mentally ill, Earlswood Asylum for Idiots
Places: England
Time periods: 19th century