Bedlam: London and Its Mad by Catharine Arnold

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Bedlam: London and Its Mad

Catharine Arnold

320 pages paperback 2008

4 editions

nonfiction history psychology dark informative reflective slow-paced
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'Bedlam!' The very name conjures up graphic images of naked patients chained among filthy straw, or parading untended wards deluded that they are Napoleon or Jesus Christ. We owe this image of madness to William Hogarth, who, in plate eight of his...

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