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Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors & Lunatics (Revealing History)
by Roy Porter
Binding: Paperback, illustrated edition edition, 336 pages
Publisher: Tempus
List Price: USD $16.95
Weight: 93
Dimension: H: 1.34 x L: 7.8 x W: 4.88 inches
ISBN 10: 0752437305
ISBN 13: 9780752437309
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What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge (himself afflicted with madness)? How were our eighteenth century ancestors sectioned and how were they treated by the fledgling psychiatric 'profession'? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the century Shelley s 'old, mad, blind, despised king' George III treated before his final decent into senility in 1808?<P>Best selling popular historian Roy Porter looks at the bizarre and savage practices of doctors for treating those afflicted by 'manias', ranging from huge doses of opium, blood letting, cold water immersion to beatings, confinement in cages and blistering. The author also reveals how Bethlem the London asylum created to care for the mentally sick of the capital was riddled with sadism and embezzlement, and if that wasn t dehumanizing enough, jeering, ogling sightseers were permitted entry for a fee of course.

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