Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… firm opinion that Bethlem itself was, and always had been, a disaster in the treatment of the insane, relying as it traditionally had on rigid discipline and punitive measures. The sociability at St Luke’s might have been forced, a pale … 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 kind of sociability, though not for the …
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