Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England by Leonard Smith
Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England
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Leonard Smith
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Cure, Comfort and Safe Custody: Public Lunatic Asylums in Early Nineteenth-Century England

Leonard Smith

330 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

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Explores the evolving tensions between the three objectives of the English mental asylum from 1808 to 1845: custody, cure, and comfort. Smith (arts and social sciences, U. of Birmingham, UK) finds that the implicit goal of custody, evidenced in pe...

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