Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

Sarah Wise

496 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced
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The 19th century saw a series of panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums, and public feeling often ran high against the rising 'alienist' (or 'mad doctor') profession. English liberty was seen to be under threat from a n...

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