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Madness in America : cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914 / Cultural and medical perceptions of mental illness before 1914 Lynn Gamwell, Nancy Tomes. - Ithaca, N.Y. : Binghamton, N.Y. : Cornell University Press ; Binghamton University Art Museum, 1995. - 182 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm. - Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-176) and index.

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Psychiatry--History.--United States
Mental illness--Public opinion.--United States
Social psychiatry--History.--United States

RC443 / .G35 1995

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