Framing psychiatric subjectivity: Doctor, patient and record-keeping at Bethlem in the nineteenth century

Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-136

  Suzuki, Akihito ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

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EID: 85071603360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203025789-14     Document Type: Chapter

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