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Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and TV series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff. The hospital is part of the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Dr Theophilus (Theo) Bulkeley Hyslop FRSE MRCPE (1863-12 February 1933) was a British physician specialising in mental health and overseeing, in various medical capacities, the notorious Bethlem Royal Hospital in London (commonly known as Bedlam) from 1888 to 1911. [1] He was an exponent of eugenics. [2]
Bedlam is a 2019 American feature-length documentary directed, produced, and written by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg.Produced, and written by Peter Miller, co-produced by Joan Churchill and Alan Barker, edited by Jim Cricchi, with additional editing by James Holland, it immerses us in the national crisis surrounding care of people with serious mental illness through intimate stories of patients ...
Hilary Marland - Bedlam in Broad Arrows: Mental Health and the Prison System; Jennifer Kain - Sailors beyond the asylum: Experiences of 'mad' merchant seamen in 1910s New Zealand; David Vaughan - Off the Page: Mad or Bad. Crime and Insanity in Victorian Britain
Also known as Bedlam, the hospital was the first in the UK to specialise in mental illness. [74] [75] One wing of the hospital was the State Criminal Lunatic Asylum, and those incarcerated there had committed crimes while judged to be insane. [76] [77] [i] Little is known about Oxford's life in at the Bethlem Hospital. [73]
A view of Bethlem Hospital, published in 1896. From 1852 to 1862 [1] [6] Hood was the resident Physician and Superintendent of Bethlem Royal Hospital, living there with his wife and family; [7] he "worked indefatigably for the improvement of the patients' conditions, and particularly for the segregation of the criminal insane".
July 15: U.K., Europe tour dates announced. The 25-year-old singer announces the U.K. and Europe tour dates in support of The Secret of Us. Kicking off in Madrid in February 2025, Abrams's four ...
Bedlam Heights, a haunted apartment building, is owned by Warren Bettany, who is assisted by his daughter Kate, who lives with Ryan McAllister and Molly Lucas. It was previously a mental asylum also owned by the family, but closed due to the abuse of patients. Jed Harper, Kate's adopted cousin, is able to see spirits and stop their malice.