Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad DoctorsLunatics by Roy Porter

Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad DoctorsLunatics

Roy Porter

344 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history dark informative slow-paced
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What was it like to be insane in the Georgian England of Mary Wollstonecraft and Coleridge? Indeed, how was the most famous mad person of the century—Shelley’s “old, mad, blind, despised king” George III—treated before his final descent into insan...

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