Samuel Wesley’s ‘Madness’ of 1817–18

In 1817 the musician Samuel Wesley was confined for a year in Blacklands House, a private lunatic asylum in London operated by Dr Alexander Robert Sutherland. Surviving documents enable aspects of Wesley’s case to be reconstructed and indicate that his confinement was an enormous miscarriage of just...

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Veröffentlicht in:	History of psychiatry 2003-12, Vol.14 (4), p.459-474
1. Verfasser:	Kassler, Michael
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	History of medicine History, 19th Century Hospitals, Psychiatric - history Mental Disorders - history Music - history Religion and Psychology United Kingdom Wesley
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Zusammenfassung:	In 1817 the musician Samuel Wesley was confined for a year in Blacklands House, a private lunatic asylum in London operated by Dr Alexander Robert Sutherland. Surviving documents enable aspects of Wesley’s case to be reconstructed and indicate that his confinement was an enormous miscarriage of justice.
ISSN:	0957-154X 1740-2360
DOI:	10.1177/0957154X03144002