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Author Shortt, Samuel E. D. (Samuel Edward Dole), 1947-

Title Victorian lunacy : Richard M. Bucke and the practice of late nineteenth-century psychiatry / S.E.D. Shortt
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986

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Description xvi, 207 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Cambridge history of medicine
Cambridge history of medicine.
Contents Machine derived contents note: List of tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Abbreviations; Note on primary sources; Introduction; 1. The topography of a Victorian medical life; 2. The human ecology of the London Asylum; 3. Toward a secular physiology of mind; 4. The social genesis of etiological speculation; 5. Treatment tactics and professional aspirations; Epilogue; Notes; Index
Analysis Medicine Psychiatry Theories of Bucke, Richard Maurice
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Subject Bucke, Richard Maurice, 1837-1902.
London Asylum for Insane (Ont.)
London Asylum for Insane (Ont.) -- History -- 19th century.
Physicians -- Ontario -- Biography.
Psychiatric hospitals -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century.
Hospitals, Psychiatric -- history.
Psychiatry.
Psychiatry -- history.
SUBJECT Ontario. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009864
Genre/Form Biography.
LC no. 85026919
ISBN 0521309999