The trade in lunacy

Description:

An historical overview of privately owned mental health institutions in England and Wales between the seventeenth century and the 1970s. This in depth study combines historic reports, statistics, and other important artifacts to provide a clear picture of the successes and failures of such institutions. A number of manuscripts and historic plates are provided for reference in an extensive database of resources and their origins.

subjects: Mentally ill,  England,  Psychiatric hospitals,  Institutional care,  Care,  History,  asylum,  mental hospital,  mental ward,  hospital,  historical medicine,  medicine,  medical history,  psych,  sanitarium,  madhouse,  lunatic asylum,  lunacy,  mental health treatment,  private hospital,  Commitment of Mentally Ill,  Mental Disorders,  Mentally ill, great britain,  Mentally ill, care,  Mental Health Services

Places: Great Britain,  England

Times: Seventeenth Century,  Eighteenth Century,  Nineteenth Century,  1970,  1700-1970