Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… Bethlem Hospital (1818), in Dale Peterson (ed.), A Mad People’s History of Madness (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1982), p. 78. Nevertheless, Bethlem had traditionally, and throughout most of the eighteenth century, afforded one … Roy Porter, Mind-Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency (London: Athlone Press, 1987), p. 122. 5 . Ned Ward, The London Spy, ed. Paul Hyland (East Lansing: Colleagues Press, 1993), p. 57. (Hyland’s text is that of the fourth collected edition of 1709.). As Roy Porter observes, though, …
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