Published September, 2007
By Susan Piddock
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Employing the considerable archaeological and historical skills in her armory, Susan Piddock tries to lift the lid on the lunatic asylums of years gone by. Films and television programs have portrayed them as places of horror where the patients are restrained and left to listen to the cries of their fellow inmates in despair.

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