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  • LUNATICS, IMBECILES AND IDIOTS
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    LUNATICS, IMBECILES AND IDIOTS
    KATHRYN BURTINSHAW / JOHN BURT
    “Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail   In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in ...

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  • MADNESS, MURDER AND MAYHEM
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    MADNESS, MURDER AND MAYHEM
    KATHRYN BURTINSHAW / JOHN BURT
    Following an assassination attempt on George III in 1800, new legislation significantly altered the way the criminally insane were treated by the judicial system in Britain. This book explores these changes and explains the rationale for purpose-built criminal lunatic asylums in the Victorian era.Specific case studies are used to illustrate and describe some of the earliest pat...

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