Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care by Mark Stevens

Life in the Victorian Asylum: The World of Nineteenth Century Mental Health Care

Mark Stevens

176 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative reflective slow-paced
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Life in the Victorian Asylum reconstructs the lost world of the nineteenth century public asylums. This fresh take on the history of mental health reveals why county asylums were built, the sort of people they housed and the treatments they receiv...

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