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The Asylum And Beyond

by Mike Jay
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Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, September of 2016 ‧
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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.

This Way Madness Lies

The Asylum And Beyond

by Mike Jay

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ISBN: 9780500773628
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Release Date: September of 2016
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Categories: eBooks in English > History > General History
EAN: 9780500773628
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Mike Jay

Mike Jay, a British historian and journalist, has been writing about the history of drugs and their cultural influence since the 1990s. He is a research associate at Center for Health Humanities from the University College London and administrator of Bethlem Art and History Collection. Frequently collaborates with the London Book Review and the Wall Street Journal.

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