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Mental Disability in Victorian England

by David J. Wright

Cover of Mental Disability in Victorian England

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.

Earlswood AsylumHistoryInstitutional carePeople with mental disabilitiesPeople with mental disabilities, institutional carePeople with mental disabilities, great britainAsylums, great britainPersons with Mental DisabilitiesHistory, 19th CenturyPsychiatric HospitalsMentally illEarlswood Asylum for Idiots