Encyclopedia of asylum therapeutics, 1750/1950s

Encyclopedia of asylum therapeutics, 1750/1950s / Mary de Young.

"The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their...

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Main Author: De Young, Mary, 1949- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Mental health > Treatment > History.
Psychiatric hospitals > History.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Medicine > History > 18th century.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
Mental illness > Treatment
Medicine
Psychiatric hospitals
encyclopedias.
Encyclopedias
History
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
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Summary:"The mentally ill have always been with us, but once confined in institutions their treatment has not always been of much interest or concern. Using published reports, studies, and personal narratives of doctors and patients, this book reveals how therapeutics have always been embedded in their particular social and historical moment"--Provided by publisher
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781476617886
1476617880
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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