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Women of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum: first photographic portraits of mental illness (1852)

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Images courtesy of the Norfolk Record Office, Norwich, UK (Ref. ETN 12/3/8/2 and ETN 12/3/9/2).

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

    Jesús Pérez

  2. CAMEO Early Intervention Services, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

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Pérez, J. Women of the Surrey County Lunatic Asylum: first photographic portraits of mental illness (1852). Arch Womens Ment Health 19, 201–202 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00737-015-0584-2

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