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Inconvenient people :

1847921124

9781847921123

1409027953 (ebook)

9781409027959 (ebook)

Inconvenient people :

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lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England /

Sarah Wise.

London :

Bodley Head,

2012.

xxii, 473 pages :

illustrations, portraits ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-438), bibliography (p. 439-447) and index.

1. Being "burrowsed" -- 2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen -- 3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society -- 4. "Oh hail, holy love!" -- 5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone" -- 6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting" -- 7. The woman in yellow -- 8. Juries in revolt -- 9. Dialoguing with the unseen -- 10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!" -- Epilogue: The savage new century.

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"The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad-doctor' profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend. And contrary to popular modern belief, the madwoman in the attic was at least as likely to have been a madman. Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, some told for over a century, which reveal the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle class - their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the 'inconvenient person.' --Inside jacket.

Insanity (Law)-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Mentally ill-- Commitment and detention-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Psychiatric hospital patients-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Psychiatric hospitals-- Great Britain-- History-- 19th century.

Psychiatry-- Great Britain-- Methodology-- History-- 19th century.

Commitment of Mentally Ill-- history.

History, 19th Century.

Hospitals, Psychiatric-- history.

Jurisprudence-- history.

Social Conditions.

Dwangverpleging.

Insanity (Law)

Mentally ill-- Commitment and detention.

Psychiatric hospital patients.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Psychiatrische inrichtingen.

Psychiatrische patiënten.

Psychiatry-- Methodology.

Psychisch gestoorden.

Social conditions

London (England), Social conditions, 19th century.

United Kingdom.

England, London.

Great Britain.

Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.

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