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

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

Sarah Wise

473 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history dark slow-paced

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The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But i...

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