A Patient’s Tale of Incarceration in a Victorian Lunatic Asylum
Using the archival admissions records and the case history of a patient at a British asylum in the 1870s, the author compares two genres. The first of these is two medical certificates written and signed by two physicians attesting that the patient was of <em>unsound mind</em&am...
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Universidad de Murcia
2011-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of English Studies (IJES) |
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| Online Access: | http://revistas.um.es/ijes/article/view/137071 |