Up Top: From Lunatic Asylum to Community Care

by Hugh Purcell;Margaret Percy and Hugh Purcell

Tells how the mentally ill were treated in 20th century Wales through the Mid Wales Mental Hospital, which began as a lunatic asylum and closed when community care took over 100 years later. It was the only UK hospital for psychotic POWs in World War II, including, briefly, the Deputy F hrer Rudolf Hess. This account is based on original archives and oral testimony, and is copiously illustrated. The book places in a wide context: life in a lunatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784615919
• ISBN13: 9781784615918
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Y Lolfa
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"