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This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / Mike Jay.

By: Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- [author].
Contributor(s): Wellcome Collection [host institution].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 255 pages : illustrations (some colour), facsimiles, plans, portraits ; 29 centimetres.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780500518977; 0500518971.Subject(s): Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) | Psychiatric hospitals -- History -- Exhibitions | Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- Exhibitions | Asylums -- History -- Exhibitions | Mental health services -- History -- Exhibitions | Mental illness -- Treatment -- History -- Exhibitions | Mentally ill -- Care -- History -- Exhibitions
Contents:
The madhouse : 18th century -- The lunatic asylum : 19th century -- The mental hospital : 20th century -- Beyond the asylum : 21st century.
List(s) this item appears in: Medicine
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Book Science Museum London Dana Research Centre Library: Books Science & Technology Studies Collection 616.89:93 JAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 2402383641

"This book is published in partnership with Wellcome Collection for the exhibition 'Bedlam: the asylum and beyond', curated by Mike Jay and Bárbara Rodriguez Mun̋oz, held at Wellcome Collection, London, from 15 September 2016 to 15 January 2017"--Page 255.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-251) and index.

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