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Author:

Bartlett, Peter.

Title:

The poor law of lunacy : the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England / Peter Bartlett.

Publisher:

Leicester University Press,

Copyright Date:

1999

Description:

xix, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Mentally ill--History--Government policy--England--History--19th century.
Insane--History--England--History--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--England--History--19th century.
Poor laws--England--History--19th century.
Poor laws--England--History--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--England--History--19th century.
Insane--History--England--History--19th century.
Mentally ill--History--Government policy--England--History--19th century.
Commitment of Mentally Ill--history--England--Legislation.
History of Medicine, 19th Cent.--England.--Legislation.
Hospitals, Psychiatric--history--England--Legislation.
Poverty--legislation & jurisprudence--England.
Public Policy--England--Legislation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780718501044 (hardback)
0718501047 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)40396393
(OCoLC)42274115

LCCN:

98051388

Locations:

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)