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Single Rooms, Seclusion and the Non-Restraint Movement in British Asylums, 1838–1844

This article shows how the practice of seclusion—the confinement of asylum patients in locked rooms alone—entered the spotlight during the bitter controversy over the abolition of mechanical restraints in the late 1830s and early 1840s. Drawing on letters to The Lancet, asylum reports, reports of th...

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Autor principal: Topp, Leslie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6263206/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30515022
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hky015