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Paul Chambers, Bedlam: London's Hospital for the Mad, London: Ian Allan, 2009. Pp. 288. £19.99. ISBN 978 0 7110 3387 0.
Andrew Scull University of California andrewscull@hotmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic
Social History of Medicine, Volume 23, Issue 3, December 2010, Pages 691–692, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkq072
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Paul Chambers' new book on Bedlam (Bethlem Hospital) is self-consciously presented as a work of popular non-fiction. As such, he indicates that his primary aim is ‘to keep the story flowing smoothly, so the main body of the text is largely devoid of complex explanations and overlong discussions’ (p. 10). Since the 16 pages of endnotes simply contain references to the existing publications with very little in the way of extended commentary, the main body of the text is, in fact, essentially the whole of the text. So this is a work of popular history that aims to entertain, and to tell a good story. But there has been, as Chambers acknowledges, a great deal of scholarly work on Bethlem, particularly over the past two decades, and that body of writing has been readily available to him. Certainly there is room for a good gallop through the history of this iconic institution, so how well does Chambers' work measure up?
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