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Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society starts with a stated goal to challenge works that emphasize narratives of repression and violence in the asylum. This is grounded in a both a desire to find the complexity of the patient experience and in the fact that the records do not record much explicit abuse at Caterham. (Amy Milne-Smith, Journal of British Studies, Vol. 60 (2), April, 2021) This is a book for multiple audiences-those interested in social and institution history as well as history of psychiatry and related institutions. But more than anything else, it is a book for practitioners about the institutionalization (or not) of mental conditions-a book for reflection on the care provided to subjects with the great dilemma of the choice between institutionalization or insertion in life. (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, August 21, 2020)

This is a book for multiple audiences-those interested in social and institution history as well as history of psychiatry and related institutions. But more than anything else, it is a book for practitioners about the institutionalization (or not) of mental conditions-a book for reflection on the care provided to subjects with the great dilemma of the choice between institutionalization or insertion in life. (Alain Touwaide, Doody's Book Reviews, August 21, 2020)

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Stef Eastoe is a social and cultural historian, who has taught courses on the social history of medicine at several British universities. She specializes in the history of idiocy, welfare, and Victorian institutions, and has had work published in Journal of Victorian Culture and Landscape Research.  

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