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Memories of madness: the County of Lancaster Asylum, Rainhill, 1890

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Richard C. Barnes
Richard C. Barnes*
Affiliation:
Rehabilitation & Special Care Directorate, Rathbourne Hospital, Mill Lane, Liverpool L13 4AW
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Abstract

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An account of the thoughts of a fictional Assistant Medical Officer (AMO) on duty at the County of Lancaster Asylum, Rainhill in 1890 is given. It is based on the contemporary case records and other literary sources and is as factually accurate as possible. However, any similarity to persons living or dead is coincidental and unintentional.

Type
The History of Psychiatry
Information
Psychiatric Bulletin , Volume 19 , Issue 12 , December 1995 , pp. 767 - 769
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This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1995

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