Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publications
Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Publication
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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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.
The Law Times
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Homicidal Insanity, 1800-1985
Author: Janet Colaizzi
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311858
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
How physicians, and later psychiatrists, have diagnosed, explained, and restrained the dangerously insane. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817311858
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
How physicians, and later psychiatrists, have diagnosed, explained, and restrained the dangerously insane. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
The American Journal of Insanity
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
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Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
The Best Books
Author: William Swan Sonnenschein
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Languages : en
Pages : 740
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The Journal of Mental Science
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Aeschyli Eumenides
Author: Aeschylus
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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