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Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders

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Works from the collections

78 works

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    Gender and class in English asylums, 1890-1914 / Louise Hide Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.

    Hide, Louise | Date: 2014
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    Dangerousness : probability and prediction, psychiatry and public policy / edited by Christopher D. Webster, Mark H. Ben-Aron, Stephen J. Hucker.

    | Date: 1985
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    Broadmoor revealed : Victorian crime and the lunatic asylum / by Mark Stevens.

    Stevens, Mark (Archivist) | Date: 2013
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    Asylum, prison, and poorhouse : the writings and reform work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois / [editor] David L. Lightner.

    Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. | Date: 1999
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    Plain directions for dealing with an insane patient / by J.M. Winn.

    Winn, James M. (James Michell), 1808-1900. | Date: 1872

Related topics

Hospitals, Psychiatric
United Kingdom
Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
Mental Disorders
Mental Disorders
History, 19th Century
Hospitals, Psychiatric
Persons with Psychiatric Disorders
Psychiatry
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