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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to health
Hospitals and asylums
2Charles Nègre: Vincennes Imperial Asylum (1859)
Health tratments
3Dmitry Ermakov: Oriental massage
Mental health and psychiatry
4Hugh Welch Diamond: Patients at Surrey County Asylum (ca. 1855)
5Insane asylum patients (1870s)
6James Crichton-Browne: West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire, Great Britain
7Albert Londe: Female patients with mental illness
8Joy Christiansen: Family Gathering
Disability
9Picturing disability
Documentary studies
10W. Eugene Smith: Minamata
11W. Eugene Smith: Nurse Midwife

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