The treatment of pauper lunatics in Victorian England: The case of lancaster asylum, 1816-1870

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 166-198

  Walton, John ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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