Author: Lyttleton Winslow
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Manual of Lunacy: a Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane
Author: Lyttleton Winslow
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368844156
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Manual of Lunacy
Author: Lyttleton Forbes Winslow
Publisher:
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Certification of Insanity
Author: Filippo Maria Sposini
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031427424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031427424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire.
A Concise Handbook of the Laws Relating to Medical Men
Author: James Greenwood
Publisher:
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Category : Forensic psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Forensic psychiatry
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
On overwork and premature mental decay: its treatment [a paper].
Author: Charles Henry Felix Routh
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
On Spermatorrhoea and Certain Functional Derangements and Debilities of the Generative System
Author: Francis Burdett Courtenay
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Category : Generative organs
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Category : Generative organs
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Out of his mind
Author: Amy Milne-Smith
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526155044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men’s insanity.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526155044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Out of His Mind interrogates how Victorians made sense of the madman as both a social reality and a cultural representation. Even at the height of enthusiasm for the curative powers of nineteenth-century psychiatry, to be certified as a lunatic meant a loss of one’s freedom and in many ways one’s identify. Because men had the most power and authority in Victorian Britain, this also meant they had the most to lose. The madman was often a marginal figure, confined in private homes, hospitals, and asylums. Yet as a cultural phenomenon he loomed large, tapping into broader social anxieties about respectability, masculine self-control, and fears of degeneration. Using a wealth of case notes, press accounts, literature, medical and government reports, this text provides a rich window into public understandings and personal experiences of men’s insanity.
The Science and Practice of Surgery
Author: Frederick James Gant
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : Surgery
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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The Management and Diseases of the Dog
Author: John Woodroffe Hill
Publisher:
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Category : Dog breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This 1881 volume offers a comprehensive review of dog afflictions and treatment.
Publisher:
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Category : Dog breeds
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
This 1881 volume offers a comprehensive review of dog afflictions and treatment.
Healthy Homes
Author: Stanley Haynes
Publisher:
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Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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