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Morecambe Bay Medical Journal
The mid-Victorian years in England are often seen as prosperous, placid and complacent: a period ... more The mid-Victorian years in England are often seen as prosperous, placid and complacent: a period of burgeoning material prosperity and consensus politics, in which the English basked in the glories of world industrial leadership and the propertied classes could relax in the knowledge that the Chartist challenge to the established order in the late 1830s and 1840s had shrivelled and died. Beneath the comfortable surface, however, lay nagging doubts and fears. Challenges were emerging which called into question the eternal verities of Crown, Church and Constitution. The condition of the working classes, and especially the teeming multitudes of the urban slums, aroused recurrent fears of crime, disease and moral contagion, creeping out like a miasma to infect the rest of society. Within this universe of half-acknowledged unease, the fear of insanity and the insane had a prominent place.
Morecambe Bay Medical Journal
The mid-Victorian years in England are often seen as prosperous, placid and complacent: a period ... more The mid-Victorian years in England are often seen as prosperous, placid and complacent: a period of burgeoning material prosperity and consensus politics, in which the English basked in the glories of world industrial leadership and the propertied classes could relax in the knowledge that the Chartist challenge to the established order in the late 1830s and 1840s had shrivelled and died. Beneath the comfortable surface, however, lay nagging doubts and fears. Challenges were emerging which called into question the eternal verities of Crown, Church and Constitution. The condition of the working classes, and especially the teeming multitudes of the urban slums, aroused recurrent fears of crime, disease and moral contagion, creeping out like a miasma to infect the rest of society. Within this universe of half-acknowledged unease, the fear of insanity and the insane had a prominent place.