The Certification Of Insanity

Author : Filippo Maria Sposini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031427428

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The Certification of Insanity by Filippo Maria Sposini Pdf

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 : David Wright
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191554353

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Mental Disability in Victorian England by David Wright Pdf

This book contributes to the growing scholarly interest in the history of disability by investigating the emergence of 'idiot' asylums in Victorian England. Using the National Asylum for Idiots, Earlswood, as a case-study, it investigates the social history of institutionalization, privileging the relationship between the medical institution and the society whence its patients came. By concentrating on the importance of patient-centred admission documents, and utilizing the benefits of nominal record linkage to other, non-medical sources, David Wright extends research on the confinement of the 'insane' to the networks of care and control that operated outside the walls of the asylum. He contends that institutional confinement of mentally disabled and mentally ill individuals in the nineteenth century cannot be understood independently of a detailed analysis of familial and community patterns of care. In this book, the family plays a significant role in the history of the asylum, initiating the identification of mental disability, participating in the certification process, mediating medical treatment, and facilitating discharge back into the community. By exploring the patterns of confinement to the Earlswood Asylum, Professor Wright reveals the diversity of the 'insane' population in Victorian England and the complexities of institutional committal in the nineteenth century. Moreover, by investigating the evolution of the Earlswood Asylum, it examines the history of the institution where John Langdon Down made his now famous identification of 'Mongolism', later renamed Down's Syndrome. He thus places the formulation of this archetype of mental disability within its historical, cultural, and scientific contexts.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2024 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11793741

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British Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bill Forsythe,Joseph Melling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134668755

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Insanity, Institutions and Society, 1800-1914 by Bill Forsythe,Joseph Melling Pdf

This comprehensive collection provides a fascinating summary of the debates on the growth of institutional care during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Revising and revisiting Foucault, it looks at the significance of ethnicity, race and gender as well as the impact of political and cultural factors, throughout Britain and in a colonial context. It questions historically what it means to be mad and how, if at all, to care.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004333598

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Sex and Seclusion, Class and Custody by Anonim Pdf

This innovative collection of essays employs historical and sociological approaches to provide important case studies of asylums, psychiatry and mental illness in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

Author : Deborah Brunton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0719067391

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Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930 by Deborah Brunton Pdf

Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930 provides readers with unrivaled access to a comprehensive range of sources on major themes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century medicine. The book covers issues such as the changing role of the hospital, disease, colonial and imperial medicine, women, war, the emergence of modern surgery, welfare and the state, and the growth of asylum. Extracts from contemporary writings vividly illustrate key aspects of medical thought and practice, while a selection of classic historical research and up-to-date work in the field gives a sense of our understanding of medical history. Introductions make the sources accessible to the student as well as the interested general reader.

Author : Anne Digby,David Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134831982

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From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency by Anne Digby,David Wright Pdf

From Idiocy to Mental Deficiency is the first book devoted to the social history of people with learning disabilities in Britain. Approaches to learning disabilities have changed dramatically in recent years. The implementation of 'Care in the Community', the campaign for disabled rights and the debate over the education of children with special needs have combined to make this one of the most controversial areas in social policy today. The nine original research essays collected here cover the social history of learning disability from the Middle Ages through the establishment of the National Health Service. They will not only contribute to a neglected field of social and medical history but also illuminate and inform current debates. The information presented here will have a profound impact on how professionals in mental health, psychiatric nursing, social work and disabled rights understand learning disability and society's responses to it over the course of history.

Author : United States. Public Health Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : UIUC:30112062933970

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Manual for Medical Examination of Aliens by United States. Public Health Service Pdf

Author : L. W. Fox
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000968057

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The Modern English Prison by L. W. Fox Pdf

Originally published in 1934, The Modern English Prison was prepared in the belief that among the growing literature of crime and the treatment of crime, there should be some room for some account of the English prison system as it stood. Its first aim was to give an objective and comprehensive view of the system as it was at the time, rather than as it had been or ought to have been: the historical matter is therefore limited to what is necessary for proper understanding of present practice and no attempt is made to trespass on the ground of the penologist. Here is an authoritative and up-to-date account of the Prison System in England and Wales, prepared with the approval of the Prison Commissioners.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015022384716

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2800 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104249265

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Mentally ill
ISBN : UCAL:B5158569

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Alaska Mental Health by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs Pdf

Author : James Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Forensic psychiatry
ISBN : HARVARD:HC25ST

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Epitome of Mental Diseases by James Shaw Pdf

2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.

Author : Stef Eastoe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030273354

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Idiocy, Imbecility and Insanity in Victorian Society by Stef Eastoe Pdf

This book explores the understudied history of the so-called ‘incurables’ in the Victorian period, the people identified as idiots, imbeciles and the weak-minded, as opposed to those thought to have curable conditions. It focuses on Caterham, England’s first state imbecile asylum, and analyses its founding, purpose, character, and most importantly, its residents, innovatively recreating the biographies of these people. Created to relieve pressure on London’s overcrowded workhouses, Caterham opened in September 1870. It was originally intended as a long-stay institution for the chronic and incurable insane paupers of the metropolis, more commonly referred to as idiots and imbeciles. This purpose instantly differentiates Caterham from the more familiar, and more researched, lunatic asylums, which were predicated on the notion of cure and restoration of the senses. Indeed Caterham, built following the welfare and sanitary reforms of the late 1860s, was an important feature of the Victorian institutional landscape, and it represented a shift in social, medical and political responsibility towards the care and management of idiot and imbecile paupers.

Author : Tim Pat Coogan
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781250110602

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1916: One Hundred Years of Irish Independence by Tim Pat Coogan Pdf

There’s before 1916 and then there’s after. Between them lies the Easter Rising, when Irish republicans took up arms against British rule and changed the course of their country’s history forever. For though the resistance failed, it failed gloriously; the rebels were no longer a group of cranks and troublemakers in the public eye, but martyrs and national heroes, their example set the way for others and their mission lived on through the century to come. But what sort of country did the Rising create? And how does post-1916 Ireland compare with the aspirations of the rebellion’s leaders, the hopes of Thomas MacDonagh and John MacBride, of James Connolly and Patrick Pearse? One hundred years later, Tim Pat Coogan offers a personal perspective on the Irish experience that followed the Rising. He charts a flawed history that is marked as much by complacency, corruption, and institutional abuse as it is by the building of a nation and the sacrifices of the Republic’s founding fathers.