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Inconvenient People
- Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
Engelsk
Bogcover for Inconvenient People af Sarah Wise, 9780099541868
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9780099541868
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099541866
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2013
Størrelse i cm:
19,3 x 12,2 x 3,7
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2013
Forfatter(e):

Inconvenient People

- Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England
Engelsk
Paperback 2013
Format:

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This highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period.


Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love…

The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the ‘mad-doctor’ profession, English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend.

Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories, untold for over a century and reveals the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes – their sexuality, fears of inherited madness, financial greed and fraudulence – and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the ‘inconvenient person.''

‘A fine social history of the people who contested their confinement to madhouses in the 19th century, Wise offers striking arguments, suggesting that the public and juries were more intent on liberty than doctors and families’ Sunday Telegraph

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
496
ISBN-13:
9780099541868
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0099541866
Udg. Dato:
3 okt 2013
Størrelse i cm:
19,3 x 12,2 x 3,7
Oplagsdato:
3 okt 2013
Forfatter(e):
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