Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… Image Robert Hooke, ‘The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, … to witness the antics of the lunatics. 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 … is that of the fourth collected edition of 1709.). As Roy Porter observes, though, ‘Bethlem the institution was small; ‘ Bedlam ‘ the image loomed large in the public imagination’ ( p. 122). Bethlem was not only a sociable place to visit, …
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