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Broadmoor - An Inside Story (Hardcover)
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Broadmoor - An Inside Story (Hardcover)
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Since 1863 Broadmoor Hospital has housed some of the most dangerous
men and women in Britain, including Peter Sutcliffe, Ronnie Kray,
and the 'Teenage Poisoner' Graham Young. The Victorians were proud
of Broadmoor, believing it to be a progressive innovation, intended
for criminals deemed too 'insane' to be held fully responsible for
their actions. By the start of the 20th century the hospital was
terribly overcrowded: and had become a secretive and scary place.
In the 1970s, two nurses exposed practices including violent
assaults on patients by staff and the punitive prescription of
highly toxic drugs. There were questions asked in Parliament - and
a new Mental Health Act resulted. Harvey Gordon, one of the world's
leading forensic psychiatrists, is the first Medical Director of
Broadmoor to write its history. His inside story deals with the
hospital's past and very different present, unflinching in its
descriptions of Broadmoor's darkest secrets - and the improvements
their exposure led to.With case studies of some of the hospital's
most notorious and deadly inmates, Broadmoor: An Inside Story is a
comprehensive history of a controversial place, where medicine and
law enforcement meet.
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