Unfortunate folk

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This book consists of essays about the treatment of the mentally ill, researched and written by postgraduate students of the University of Otago's History department. It discusses how the 'unfortunate folk' deemed to be 'foreigners' in the world of reason have been treated in one province of New Zealand since the founding of the Dunedin Lunatic Asylum in 1863, and looks at wider New Zealand patterns, with the creation of a specialty within medicine directed specifically towards mental health.

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