Microhistory as Ethnographic Exploration Letters from an 17thc. Asylum

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Molly Paechter

Abstract

‘It is common to compare
the appointments of [mental
asylums] in the present day very
favourably with those of the past.
Perhaps too much is said of this.’

(Elizabeth Naish Capper, patient at
the Retreat, 1878)

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