Outside the walls of the asylum : on 'care in the community' in modern Britain and Ireland / edited by Peter Bartlett and David Wright. - Linton : Athlone, 1999. - 260p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal institutions explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day.

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