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Sketches in Bedlam — John Haslam

Sketches in Bedlam

John Haslam

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 227 pages

Sketches in Bedlam is a collection of early nineteenth-century essays by John Haslam, based on 140 patients at New Bethlem Hospital in London. It combines case sketches with an account of the asylum's history, rules, admissions and treatment. It offers historical insight into how insanity was observed and recorded in early nineteenth-century Britain.

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Contents

  1. SKETCHES IN BEDLAM;
  2. PREFACE.
  3. INTRODUCTION.
  4. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PERSONS APPLYING FOR THE ADMISSION OF PATIENTS INTO BETHLEM HOSPITAL.
  5. SKETCHES IN BEDLAM.
  6. FEMALES.
  7. RECOMMENDATORY ATTESTATIONS, SELECTED FROM SEVERAL HUNDRED INSERTED IN THE VISITORS’ BOOK.
  8. PROSPECTUS
  9. Transcriber’s note
  10. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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