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Madmen: A Social History of Madhouses, Mad Doctors and Lunatics

• By (author): Roy Porter
• Published by: NPI Media Group
• Publication date: 01/Mar/2006
• Format: Paperback - 336 pages
• Product dimensions (mm): 199 x 126 x 32
• ISBN-10: 0752437305
• ISBN-13: 9780752437309
• Categories:
      > History: Specific Subjects
  

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The best-selling popular historian, Roy Porter, looks at the bizarre and savagepractices used by doctors for treating those afflicted by manias, ranging from ...

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