The cemetary associated with Leyme Mental Hospital.
A detailed study of a cemetary attached to a provincial psychiatric hospital underscores its resemblance to military and Anglo-Saxon burial grounds. It is a sad reminder of the isolation and abandonment of many patients in French asylums up to the middle of the twentieth century.
Védie
Christian
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Université Aix-Marseille, France. christian.vedie@ch-valvert-marseille.fr
D005602:France; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D009027:Mortuary Practice / Q000266:history*