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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
Categories: eBooks in English > History > General History
EAN: 9780500773628
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Mike Jay

Mike Jay, historiador e jornalista britânico, escreve desde os anos 90 sobre a história das drogas e a sua influência cultural. É investigador associado do Health Humanities Centre da University College London e administrador da Bethlem Art and History Collection. Colabora frequentemente com a London Review of Books e o Wall Street Journal.

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