A slavish bowing down: The lunacy commission and the psychiatric profession 1845-60

Anatomy of Madness: Essays in the History of Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue , 2018, Pages 98-131

  Hervey, N ^a  

^a BETHLEM ROYAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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