This way madness lies : the asylum and beyond / Mike Jay.

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Is mental illness-- or madness-- at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This book explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Jay, Mike, 1959 December 14- (Author, Curator)
Corporate Author:	Wellcome Collection (Organizer, host instituition.)
Other Authors:	Rodríguez Muñoz, Bárbara (Curator)
Language:	English
Published:	New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2016.
Subjects:	Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England) Asylums > History > Exhibitions. Psychiatric hospitals > History > Exhibitions. Mental illness > History > Exhibitions. Mentally ill > History > Exhibitions. Mental health services > History > Exhibitions. Hospitals, Psychiatric > history. Mentally Ill Persons > history.
Genre:	Exhibitions.
Physical Description:	255 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Format:	Book

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