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Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society by Peter Barham

Closing the Asylum: The Mental Patient in Modern Society

Peter Barham

208 pages paperback 1992

1 edition

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Looking at the treatment of the mentally ill, this book discusses NHS spending cuts and the recent drive towards closing mental hospitals and treating patients by means of "community care". It looks at Victorian institutionalization and speculates...

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