Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… But the most telling form of Bethlem sociability was in its popular image as ‘Bedlam’, a crazed version of actual society where all activities that made for civilization were distorted into manifestations of madness. Places > Health … and punitive measures. The sociability at St Luke’s might have been forced, a pale fake of what was to be found in society beyond its walls, but it was an attempt at activity, promoting some kind of social cohesion within the asylum, at … Commodities of all sorts went off, for there wanted not a suitable Jack to every Jill. ‘ 5 A cross-section of English society, in fact, could be observed visiting Bethlem, brought together by the lowest common denominators of needs: to …
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