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Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society

Caterham Asylum, 1867–1911

Stef Eastoe

978-3-030-27335-4

2020
Edition 1
- Explores the understudied histories of asylum patients identified as incurably insane and how society, government and the medical profession responded to this group
- Focuses on the history of Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, unlike other lunatic asylums where so-called curable patients were treated
- Challenges the notion of incurability and chronicity as sources of shame and stigma within Victorian and Edwardian economies of welfare
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