Phrenology and british alienists, ca. 1825-1845

Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 58-104

  Cooter, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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