The poor law of lunacy : the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England

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Label

The poor law of lunacy : the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England

Title remainder

the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England

Statement of responsibility

Peter Bartlett

Creator

• Bartlett, Peter

Subject

• Commitment of Mentally Ill -- England -- History -- Legislation
• Electronic books
• England
• History
• History, 19th Century -- England -- Legislation
• Hospitals, Psychiatric -- England -- History -- Legislation
• MEDICAL -- Mental Health
• Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention
• Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Mentally ill -- Institutional care | Government policy -- England -- History -- 19th century
• 1800-1899
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness
• Poor laws
• Poor laws -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Poverty -- legislation & jurisprudence -- England
• Psychiatric hospitals
• Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- History -- 19th century
• Public Policy -- England -- Legislation
• PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health

Genre

• History
• Legislation
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

Examining the legal and administrative regime of the 19th century asylum, this text argues that it is to be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent of the asylum had little power

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

362.2/1/094209034

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HV3009

LC item number

.B37 1999eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

• 1999 J-457
• WM 33 FE5

NLM item number

B291p 1999