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Manual of Lunacy: A Handbook Relating To The Legal Care And Treatment Of The Insane In The Public And Private Asylums Of Great Britain, Ireland, United States Of America, And The Continent - Couverture souple

Winslow, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes

 
9781108063494: Manual of Lunacy: A Handbook Relating To The Legal Care And Treatment Of The Insane In The Public And Private Asylums Of Great Britain, Ireland, United States Of America, And The Continent
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ISBN 10 : 1108063497 ISBN 13 : 9781108063494
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844–1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety for his amateur detective work: he claimed to know the identity of Jack the Ripper. Published in 1874, this book examines, often through case descriptions, the legal framework within which the mentally ill were managed, and comparisons are made with the status quo elsewhere in the world. It is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of mental illness in the late nineteenth century.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844–1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety for his amateur detective work: he claimed to know the identity of Jack the Ripper. Published in 1874, this book examines, often through case descriptions, the legal framework within which the mentally ill were managed, and comparisons are made with the status quo elsewhere in the world. It is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of mental illness in the late nineteenth century.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108063497
ISBN 13 
9781108063494
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
472
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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