Community care and the control of mental defectives in inter war Britain

The Locus of Care: Families, Communities, Institutions, and the Provision of Welfare Since Antiquity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 198-216

  Thomson, Mathew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84920595999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203428047     Document Type: Chapter

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