The West Riding Lunatic Asylum and the making of the modern brain sciences in the nineteenth century
In the final third of the nineteenth century, British asylums were backwaters. Custodians of the insane but curative failures, they lagged far behind the successes of their Continental counterparts and colleagues in other branches of medicine. Yet between 1866 and 1876, a British asylum – the West R...
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University of Leeds
2012
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