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A Space of Their Own: The Archaeology of Nineteenth Century Lunatic Asylums in Britain, South Australia and Tasmania
The history of lunatic asylums – what do we really know about them? Films and television programs have portrayed them as ...
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Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy
This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced ...
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Drinking in Victorian and Edwardian Britain
the book investigates the reasons why Victorians and Edwardians consumed alcohol in the ways that they did and explores the ...
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Religion and the Decline of Fertility in the Western World
This book provides new insights into the relationships between religion and demography during the crucial period of the nineteenth ...
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