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9781742236179 (paperback)
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Dunk, James
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Bedlam at Botany Bay / James Dunk.
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Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, UNSW Press Ltd., 2019.
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x, 306 pages ; 24 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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The book looks at people at the edge of the world finding themselves at the edge of sanity, and is about their strategies for survival. This is a new story of colonial Australia, cast as neither a grim and fatal shore nor an antipodean paradise, but a place where the full range of humanity wrestled with the challenges of colonisation. The book's intimate descriptions of madness and the response to it give a unique picture of life in the early colony through the lens of mental illness. This book explores efforts to understand and to treat madness before asylums, hospitals and doctors made madness a medical problem.
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Mental health -- New South Wales
Mental illness -- New South Wales -- Social aspects -- History
Penal colonies -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- History
Australia -- Politics and government -- 19th century
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2019.269
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