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Madmen: A Social History of Mad-Houses, Mad-Doctors and Lunatics (Revealing History)
Madmen A Social History of MadHouses MadDoctors and Lunatics - Revealing History
Author: Roy Porter
What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the century—Shelley’s “old, mad, blind, despised king” George III—treated before his final descent into insanity in 1808? The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780752419725
ISBN-10: 0752419722
Publication Date: 10/1/2004
Pages: 344
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Publisher: Tempus Publishing, Limited
Book Type: Hardcover
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