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The Most Cruel and Revolting Crimes: The Treatment of the Mentally Ill in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Jamaica

In 1860 the appalling conditions that patients at the lunatic asylum in Kingston, Jamaica, endured came under public scrutiny. The most notorious of the “most cruel and revolting crimes” which were exposed was the practice of tanking – forcibly holding patients under water. Following the death of a...

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Hovedforfatter: JONES, MARGARET
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: 2008
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2880441/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20526467
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