Название: A History of London County Lunatic Asylums & Mental Hospitals
Автор: Ed Brandon
Издательство: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1399008730
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 226
Размер: 15,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ‘mad’ locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived ‘epidemic’ of madness take hold, with ‘county asylums’ seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary.