This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the presen

First published in 1972, A History of the Mental Health Services is a revised and abridged version of both Lunacy, Law and Conscience and Mental Health and Soci

This is Volume V of seven in a collection on the Sociology of Mental Health. Originally published in 1964, the object of this book is to study a particular grou