Mental Disability in Victorian England
About this book
Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood as a case-study, this work looks into the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Wright examines the social history of institutionalisation.
Subjects
Earlswood AsylumHistoryInstitutional carePeople with mental disabilitiesPeople with mental disabilities, institutional carePeople with mental disabilities, great britainAsylums, great britainPersons with Mental DisabilitiesHistory, 19th CenturyPsychiatric HospitalsMentally illEarlswood Asylum for Idiots