The Last Of The Lunatics
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Author | : John Cawte |
Publisher | : Melbourne University |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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A searing historical account of the treatment of the mentally ill in Australia before the invention of tranquilizers.
Author | : Dave Barry |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 2012-01-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101565772 |
Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on Sundays a referee for a local kids’ soccer league. Jeffrey Peckerman is the proud and loving father of a star athlete in the girls’ ten-and-under soccer league, and he’s not exactly happy with the ref. The two of them are about to collide in a swiftly escalating series of events that will send them running for their lives, pursued by the police, soldiers, subversives, bears, revolutionaries, pirates, and a black ops team that does not exist. Where all that takes them you can’t even begin to guess, but the literary journey there is a masterpiece of inspiration, chaos, and unadulterated, well, lunacy. And they might even learn a lesson or two along the way.
Author | : G. K. Chesterton |
Publisher | : House of Stratus |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0755100204 |
Gabriel Gale is an eccentric poet. His madness is the madness of insight and he uses this gift to solve or prevent crimes committed by madmen. Chesterton ably illustrates his own premise that lunacy and sanity may just be a point of view...
Author | : Bradley Denton |
Publisher | : St. Martin's Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2015-07-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1250091616 |
Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits outside, naked under a full moon. To prevent further troubles with the law, Jack's friends begin taking him to a cabin in the woods each full moon. But one at a time, they are each touched by Lily and forced to deal with their desires before they can truly know their hearts.
Author | : Kathryn Burtinshaw |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2017-04-30 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1473879051 |
“Reveals the grisly conditions in which the mentally ill were kept . . . [and] harrowing details of the inhumane and gruesome treatment of these patients.”—Daily Mail In the first half of the nineteenth century, treatment of the mentally ill in Britain and Ireland underwent radical change. No longer manacled, chained and treated like wild animals, patient care was defined in law and medical understanding, and treatment of insanity developed. Focusing on selected cases, this new study enables the reader to understand how progressively advancing attitudes and expectations affected decisions, leading to better legislation and medical practice throughout the century. Specific mental health conditions are discussed in detail and the treatments patients received are analyzed in an expert way. A clear view of why institutional asylums were established, their ethos for the treatment of patients, and how they were run as palaces rather than prisons giving moral therapy to those affected becomes apparent. The changing ways in which patients were treated, and altered societal views to the incarceration of the mentally ill, are explored. The book is thoroughly illustrated and contains images of patients and asylum staff never previously published, as well as first-hand accounts of life in a nineteenth-century asylum from a patient’s perspective. Written for genealogists as well as historians, this book contains clear information concerning access to asylum records and other relevant primary sources and how to interpret their contents in a meaningful way. “Through the use of case studies, this book adds a personal note to the historiography in a way that is often missing from scholarly works.”—Federation of Family History Societies
Author | : Rob Baker |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2015-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445651203 |
London's forgotten scandals, secrets and personalities from the twentieth century, told by the writer of the popular blog Another Nickel in the Machine.
Author | : Peter Barham |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 2007-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300125115 |
This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One.
Author | : Leonard Shelford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1162 |
Release | : 1847 |
Genre | : Costs (Law) |
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Author | : Leonard Shelford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1833 |
Genre | : Costs (Law) |
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Author | : Charles Miller |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 910 |
Release | : 2015-07-13 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 1784972711 |
In 1895, George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa to perform an engineering miracle: the building of the Mombasa-Nairobi-Lake Victoria Railway – a 600-mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored. Behind Mombasa lay a scorched, waterless desert. Beyond, a horizonless scrub country climbed toward a jagged volcanic region bisected by the Great Rift Valley. A hundred miles of sponge-like quagmire marked the railway's last lap. The entire right of way bristled with hostile tribes, teemed with lions and breathed malaria. What was the purpose of this 'giant folly' and whom would it benefit? Was it to exploit the rumoured wealth of little-known central African kingdoms? Was it to destroy the slave trade? To encourage commerce and settlement? THE LUNATIC EXPRESS explores the building of this great railway in an earlier Africa of slave and ivory empires, of tribal monarchs and the vast lands that they ruled. Above all, it is the story of the white intruders whose combination of avarice, honour and tenacious courage made them a breed apart.