An archaeology of lunacy

An archaeology of lunacy

An archaeology of lunacy

Katherine Fennelly

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Manchester University Press (P648)
Año de edición:
2019
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Historia de la medicina
ISBN:
9781526126498
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This is a materially focused exploration of the first wave of public asylum building in Britain and Ireland. Examining architecture and material culture, it proposes that the familiar asylum archetype, usually attributed to the Victorians, was in fact developed much earlier.

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