Author: Publisher:
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Category : Insane
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Lunacy Reform
Author: Lunacy Reform - Historical Considerations
Author: Edward Constant SéguinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mentally ill
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor
Author: Montagu LomaxPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Insanity and Society
Author: Peter McCandlessPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744-1845
Author: Kathleen JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136278818
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The First Report of the Lunacy Law Reform Association
Author: Lunacy Law Reform AssociationPublisher:
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Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Leaflets &c. Issued by the National Society for Lunacy Reform
Author: National Society for Lunacy ReformPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Trade in Lunacy
Author: William Ll. Parry-JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113503141X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
First published in 2006. A private madhouse can be defined as a privately owned establishment for the reception and care of insane persons, conducted as a business proposition for the personal profit of the proprietor or proprietors. The history of such establishments in England and Wales can be traced for a period of over three and a half centuries, from the early seventeenth century up to the present day. This volume is a study of private madhouses in England in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Lunacy, Law and Conscience, 1744-1845
Author: Kathleen JonesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136278745
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Lexicon of Lunacy
Author: Thomas SzaszPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351535021
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
Thomas Szasz is renowned for his critical exploration of the literal language of psychiatry and his rejection of officially sanctioned definitions of mental illness. His work has initiated a continuing debate in the psychiatric community whose essence is often misunderstood. Szasz's critique of the established view of mental illness is rooted in an insistent distinction between disease and behavior. In his view, psychiatrists have misapplied the vocabulary of disease as metaphorical figures to denote a range of deviant behaviors from the merely eccentric to the criminal. In A Lexicon of Lunacy, Szasz extends his analysis of psychiatric language to show how its misuse has resulted in a medicalized view of life that denies the reality of free will and responsibility. Szasz documents the extraordinary extent to which modern diagnosis of mental illness is subject to shifting social attitudes and values. He shows how economic, personal, legal, and political factors have come to play an increasingly powerful role in the diagnostic process, with consequences of blurring the distinction between cultural and scientific standards. Broadened definitions of mental illness have had a corrosive effect on the criminal justice system in undercutting traditional conceptions of criminal behavior and have encouraged state-sanctioned coercive interventions that bestow special privileges (and impose special hardships) on persons diagnosed as mentally ill. Lucidly written and powerfully argued, and now available in paperback, this provocative and challenging volume will be of interest to psychologists, criminologists, and sociologists.