William Alexander Francis Browne

Standard Name: Browne, William Alexander Francis
Used Form: W. A. F. Browne

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By 2 September 1837: W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were,...

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By 2 September 1837

W. A. F. Browne published What Asylums Were, Are, and Ought to Be, extolling the virtues of the self-employed lunatic and a hierarchy of industry within the asylum.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
41-2, 60, 290
Athenæum. J. Lection.
514 (1837): 636

1 June 1839: John Conolly became the resident physician...

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1 June 1839

John Conolly became the resident physician at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum ; he proved that a large mental institution could be managed without physical discipline.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
44-6
Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
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