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Bedlam: London and its Mad (Paperback)
Catharine Arnold (author)- In stock online
That this is still the most powerful image of Bedlam, over two centuries later, says much about our attitude to mental illness, although the Bedlam of the popular imagination is long gone. The hospital was relocated to the suburbs of Kent in 1930, and Sydney Smirke's impressive Victorian building in Southwark took on a new role as the Imperial War Museum.
Following the historical narrative structure of her acclaimed Necropolis, BEDLAM examines the capital's treatment of the insane over the centuries, from the founding of Bethlehem Hospital in 1247 through the heyday of the great Victorian asylums to the more enlightened attitudes that prevail today.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
ISBN: 9781847390004
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 218 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 1 mm
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