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Andrew Scull, 29 September 1988
Mind Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency
by Roy Porter.
Athlone, 412 pp., £25, August 1987,0 485 11324 4 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Athlone, 412 pp., £25, August 1987,
The Past and the Present Revisited
by Lawrence Stone.
Routledge, 440 pp., £19.95, October 1987,0 7102 1253 4 Show More
by Lawrence Stone.
Routledge, 440 pp., £19.95, October 1987,
Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in 17th-Century England
by Lucinda McCray Beier.
Routledge, 314 pp., £30, December 1987,0 7102 1053 1 Show More
by Lucinda McCray Beier.
Routledge, 314 pp., £30, December 1987,
Illness and Self in Society
by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster.
Johns Hopkins, 271 pp., £20.25, January 1988,0 8018 3228 4 Show More
by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster.
Johns Hopkins, 271 pp., £20.25, January 1988,
Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870
by Hilary Marland.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £40, September 1987,0 521 32575 7 Show More
by Hilary Marland.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £40, September 1987,
A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane
by Roy Porter.
Weidenfeld, 261 pp., £14.95, October 1987,0 297 79223 7 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Weidenfeld, 261 pp., £14.95, October 1987,
“... as well, such as the work of John Ferriar at the Manchester Lunatic Asylum in the 1790s, or of Edward Long Fox, from whose Bristol madhouse Tuke recruited Katherine Allen, the Retreat’s first matron. In what ways does Porter claim to go beyond this? First, by widening the circle of those entitled to be known as ‘moral managers’ to encompass a much ... ”