This is a collection of essays on the history of Psychiatry. The final Volume III offers works around the psychiatry of the Asylum in countries such as Denmark, British India, Italy, Britain, Ireland, Scotland, France and America.

W.F. Bynum is Head of the joint Academic Unit for the History of Medicine at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and University College London. Roy Porter is Senior Lecturer at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London. Michael Shepherd is Professor of Epidemiological Psychiatry and Honorary Director, General Practice Research Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.

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