What did it suggest to be mad in seventeenth-century England? This booklet makes use of shiny autobiographical bills of psychological sickness to discover the methods insanity used to be pointed out and skilled from the interior, asking how convinced humans got here to be outlined as insane, and what we will study from the bills they wrote.
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