Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian EnglandThis highly original book brilliantly exposes the phenomenon of false allegations of lunacy and the dark motives behind them in the Victorian period. Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes, men and women snatched in broad daylight, patients shut in coffins, a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad doctor' profession, English

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