The health of prisoners : : historical essays / / edited by Richard Creese, W. F. Bynum and J. Bearn.
In eighteenth-century Britain, gaols were places of temporary confinement, where inmates stayed while awaiting punishment. With the rise of the 'penitentiary' from the early nineteenth century, custodial institutions housed prisoners for much longer periods of time. Prisoners were supposed...
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| Superior document: | The Wellcome Institute Series in the History of Medicine |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Ga. : : Rodopi,, 1995. |
| Year of Publication: | 1995 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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