The Female Population of the S. Niccolò Mental Village in Siena
Authors
Francesca Vannozzi
History of Medicine Section - University of Siena, I
Keywords:
Mental hospital , Siena , Psichiatry , Madwomen
Abstract
The author deals with the population in the Sienese mental hospital (1810 – 1999) according to the variuos female presences. So, not only the patients, poor and rich, but also the attendants, the nurses, the matrons, the teachers, the nuns: a complex and never studied female universe.
