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The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times

By:

Taylor, B

Publication details: London Hamish Hamilton 2015ISBN:

0241951828
9780241951828

Subject(s):

Psychiatric Hospitals

Summary: This book is Taylor's powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system. It also incorporates the history the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients -- among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself.

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Item type	Home library	Class number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	CEME Library (NELFT) Shelves	WM11 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		NELFTT01944

This book is Taylor's powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system. It also incorporates the history the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients -- among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself.

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