Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of sufferers by humane treatment; and the mental hospital, which reduced their conditions to diseases of the brain.


Format Inbunden Omfång 256 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Thames & Hudson Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2016-09-15 ISBN 9780500518977