TY - BOOK AU - Wise,Sarah TI - Inconvenient people: lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England SN - 9780099541868 AV - RC450.G7 W58 2012 U1 - 344.4104409034 23 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Vintage books KW - Psychiatry KW - Great Britain KW - Methodology KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Psychiatric hospitals KW - Mentally ill KW - Commitment and detention KW - Insanity (Law) KW - Psychiatric hospital patients KW - London (England) KW - Social conditions N1 - Includes bibliographical notes (p. [409]-438), bibliography (p. [439]-447) and index; 1. Being "burrowsed" -- 2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen -- 3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society -- 4. "Oh hail, holy love!" -- 5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone" -- 6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting" -- 7. The woman in yellow -- 8. Juries in revolt -- 9. Dialoguing with the unseen -- 10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!" -- Epilogue: The savage new century ER -