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By Charlotte MacKenzie

The madhouse frequently figures prominently in renowned conceptions of the 19th century, but little is understood in regards to the realities of non-public associations. In Psychiatry for the wealthy, Charlotte MacKenzie examines the background of the asylum at Ticehurst in Sussex to discover the social background of insanity and the effect of politics and renowned opinion. She information the backgrounds of the sufferers, their very own descriptions of the asylum in addition to alterations within the establishment throughout the lunacy reforms and advancements in scientific conception. not easy the various accredited perspectives of the Victorian asylum, funds, medication and insanity is the main revealing account of the exchange in lunacy within the 19th century.

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A study of the British voluntary hospital system to 1875, London and Boston, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, p. 37. For Perfect, see Porter, op. , note 4 above, p. 220. Pargeter, Observations on maniacal disorders, Reading, for the author, 1792, p. 52. Parry-Jones, op. , note 8 above, p. 198. Quoted in Hunter and Macalpine, op. , note 18 above, p. 279. Quoted in Parry-Jones, op. , note 8 above, p. 103. See note 25 above; for Newington, see Chapter 2, this volume. Pargeter, op. , note 48 above, p.

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