Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Care and Control of Feeble-Minded
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Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 726

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Author: Great Britain Commissions For The Care And Control Of The Feeble Minded
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 564

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress
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Category : Poor laws
Languages : en
Pages : 1280

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 816

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 686

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Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Care and Control of Feeble-Minded
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Bills, Legislative
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Filippo Maria Sposini
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031427424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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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.

Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1038

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Author: Desmond King
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191522619
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355

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Why have British and North American governments adopted illiberal social policies during this century? In the Name of Liberalism investigates examples of social policy in Britain and the United States that conflict with liberal democratic ideals. The book examines the use of eugenic arguments in the 1920s and 1930s, the use of work camps in the 1930s as a response to mass unemployment and the introduction of work-for-welfare programs since the 1980s. The book argues that existing accounts of American and British political development neglect how illiberal social policies are intertwined in the creation of modern liberal democratic institutions. Such policies are, paradoxically, justified in terms of the liberal democratic framework itself. In the light of the books research, the author suggests that there is a need to know more about the internal workings of democracies to justify the claim that liberal democracy represents the most attractive set of political institutions.