Author: Sir John Charles BucknillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Care of the insane and their legal control
Author: Sir John Charles BucknillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Care of the Insane and Their Legal Control
Author: John Charles BucknillPublisher:
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Category : Asylums
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
A Draft Act Governing Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill
Author: National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.)Publisher:
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Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
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Author: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)Publisher:
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Certification of Insanity
Author: Filippo Maria SposiniPublisher: 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.
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Author: A New Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, with Indexes of Authors and Subjects, and a List of Historical Pamphlets, Chronologically Arranged
Author: Royal Institution of Great Britain. LibraryPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Memoir of Annie Keary, by her sister [E. Keary].
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Author: Eliza KearyAlmost a Revolution
Author: Paul S. AppelbaumPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195068801
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Doubts about the reality of mental illness and the benefits of psychiatric treatment helped foment a revolution in the law's attitude toward mental disorders over the last 25 years. Legal reformers pushed for laws to make it more difficult to hospitalize and treat people with mental illness, and easier to punish them when they committed criminal acts. Advocates of reform promised vast changes in how our society deals with the mentally ill; opponents warily predicted chaos and mass suffering. Now, with the tide of reform ebbing, Paul Appelbaum examines what these changes have wrought. The message emerging from his careful review is a surprising one: less has changed than almost anyone predicted. When the law gets in the way of commonsense beliefs about the need to treat serious mental illness, it is often put aside. Judges, lawyers, mental health professionals, family members, and the general public collaborate in fashioning an extra-legal process to accomplish what they think is fair for persons with mental illness. Appelbaum demonstrates this thesis in analyses of four of the most important reforms in mental health law over the past two decades: involuntary hospitalization, liability of professionals for violent acts committed by their patients, the right to refuse treatment, and the insanity defense. This timely and important work will inform and enlighten the debate about mental health law and its implications and consequences. The book will be essential for psychiatrists and other mental health professionals, lawyers, and all those concerned with our policies toward people with mental illness.
Forgotten Lunatics of the Great War
Author: Peter BarhamPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300125115
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is a poignant, sometimes ribald, history of the rank-and-file servicemen who were psychiatric casualties of World War One.