Author: Lunacy Law Reform AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
The First Report of the Lunacy Law Reform Association
Author: Lunacy Law Reform AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mental health laws
Languages : en
Pages : 13
Book Description
Fourteenth Annual Report of the Lunacy Law Reform Association, ... June 14th, 1887
Author: Lunacy Law Reform AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11
Book Description
National Society for Lunacy Law Reform
Author: The National Society for Lunacy Law Reform
Author: Lord Henry Cavendish BentinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Pamphlet appealing for reform to the reform of Lunacy Acts, including quoting Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder 1924 and other sources, and appealing for funds to campaign or work to do so.
National Society for Lunacy Law Reform
Author: Patient voices in Britain, 1840–1948
Author: Anne HanleyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526154870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Historians have long engaged with Roy Porter’s call for histories that incorporate patients’ voices and experiences. But despite concerted methodological efforts, there has simply not been the degree and breadth of innovation that Porter envisaged. Patients’ voices still often remain obscured. This has resulted in part from assumptions about the limitations of archives, many of which are formed of institutional records written from the perspective of health professionals. Patient voices in Britain repositions patient experiences at the centre of healthcare history, using new types of sources and reading familiar sources in new ways. Focusing on military medicine, Poor Law medicine, disability, psychiatry and sexual health, this collection encourages historians to tackle the ethical challenges of using archival material and to think more carefully about how their work might speak to persistent health inequalities and challenges in health-service delivery.
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.
The National Society for Lunacy Law Reform
Author: Lord Henry Cavendish BentinckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Pamphlet appealing for reform to the reform of Lunacy Acts, including quoting Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder 1924 and other sources, and appealing for funds to campaign or work to do so.
Authors and Subjects
Author: The Suffering of Women Who Didn't Fit
Author: David J. VaughanPublisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1526732300
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
For over 500 years, women have suffered claims of mental decay solely on account of their gender. Frigid, insane, not quite there, a witch in sheep's clothing, labels that have cast her as the fragile species and destroyer of Man.This book reveals attitudes, ideas and responses on what was to be done with 'mad women' in Britain.Journey back into the unenlightened Middle Ages to find demonic possession, turbulent humours and the wandering womb. In the Puritan Age, when the mad were called witches and scolds ducked for their nagging. The age of Austen and a sense and sensibility created from her fragile nerves. Then descend into Victorian horrors of wrongful confinement and merciless surgeons, before arriving, just half a century past, to the Viennese couch and an obligation to talk.At the heart of her suffering lay her gynaecological make-up, driving her mad every month and at every stage of her life. Terms such as menstrual madness, puerperal insanity and 'Old Maid's Insanity' poison history's pages.An inescapable truth is now shared: that so much, if not all, was a male creation. Though not every medic was male, nor every male a fiend, misogynist thought shaped our understanding of women, set down expectations and 'corrected' the flawed.The book exposes the agonies of life for the 'second class' gender; from misdiagnosis to brutal oppression, seen as in league with the Devil or the volatile wretch. Touching no less than six centuries, it recalls how, for a woman, being labelled as mad was much less a risk, more her inevitable burden.