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Andrew Scull, 29 September 1988
Mind Forg’d Manacles: A History of Madness in England from the Restoration to the Regency
by Roy Porter.
Athlone, 412 pp., £25, August 1987,0 485 11324 4 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Athlone, 412 pp., £25, August 1987,
The Past and the Present Revisited
by Lawrence Stone.
Routledge, 440 pp., £19.95, October 1987,0 7102 1253 4 Show More
by Lawrence Stone.
Routledge, 440 pp., £19.95, October 1987,
Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in 17th-Century England
by Lucinda McCray Beier.
Routledge, 314 pp., £30, December 1987,0 7102 1053 1 Show More
by Lucinda McCray Beier.
Routledge, 314 pp., £30, December 1987,
Illness and Self in Society
by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster.
Johns Hopkins, 271 pp., £20.25, January 1988,0 8018 3228 4 Show More
by Claudine Herzlich and Janine Pierret, translated by Elborg Forster.
Johns Hopkins, 271 pp., £20.25, January 1988,
Medicine and Society in Wakefield and Huddersfield 1780-1870
by Hilary Marland.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £40, September 1987,0 521 32575 7 Show More
by Hilary Marland.
Cambridge, 503 pp., £40, September 1987,
A Social History of Madness: Stories of the Insane
by Roy Porter.
Weidenfeld, 261 pp., £14.95, October 1987,0 297 79223 7 Show More
by Roy Porter.
Weidenfeld, 261 pp., £14.95, October 1987,
“... and John Clare; Sylvia Plath, Laing’s Mary Barnes and Freud’s Dora; Robert Schumann and Vaslav Nijinsky; and poor George III, in his declining years a living facsimile of Lear. There are also other, less familiar figures. There is, for instance, the remarkable Alexander Cruden, the self-styled Alexander the Corrector: expatriate Scotsman, Protestant ... ”
