This Way Madness Lies: The Asylum and Beyond by Mike Jay

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New York City, Ny: Thames And Hudson Ltd / Wellcome Collection, 2016. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 255 Pp. Illustrated Boards. An Illustrated Social History Of The Commonest Western European Occupation: Madness. At Any Given Time There Are More People In Asylums, Residential Care Homes And The Like Than There Are Doctors, Physicists, Philosophers, Legislators, Judges, Elected Politicians, Media Personalities Or Any Other Highly Specialized Career; At Any Given Time Members Of The General American, French, German, Etc. Population Is More Likely To Be Related To Or Closely Acquainted With A Present, Former Or Future Inmate Than With Anyone In Any Of Those Other Occupations. A Scarce Book, Because Who Wants To Face That Fact Of Everyday Life: Sophisticated Education Is Difficult To Find, But Unhelpful Stigmatism Is Everywhere, And People, Other Than The Rich, Often Don't Get Much Better.

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Thames & Hudson. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2016. Hardcover. 0500518971 . - Great overall condition. Minor cosmetic wear. No noteworthy blemishes. No writing. .

Thames & Hudson, 2016. Hardcover. New/New. New oversized printed image on cloth in half dust jacket. 4to. (7.4 x 1.2 x 11.4 inches) Clean text free of marks or underlining. Beautifully illustrated with photos on heavy paper throughout the book. Includes sources & further reading, sources of illustrations and an index. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. This Way Madness Lies is a thought-provoking exploration of the history of madness and its treatment as seen through the lens of its proverbial home: Bethlem Royal Hospital, London, popularly known as Bedlam. The book charts the evolution of the asylum through four incarnations: the eighteenth-century madhouse, the nineteenth century asylum, the twentieth-century mental hospital, and the post-asylum modern day, when mental health has become the concern of the wider community. The book reveals the role that the history of madness and its treatment has played in creating the landscape of the asylum, in all its iterations. Moving… Read More

Thames & Hudson, 2016-10-25. Hardcover. New.

Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations of the institution that defined it: the madhouse, designed to segregate its inmates from society; the lunatic asylum, which intended to restore the reason of suf