Madness on Trial : A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy Paperback / softback
by James Moran
Part of the Social Histories of Medicine series
Paperback / softback
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This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey.
The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation.
This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England’s propertied classes understood and responded to madness. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspectives.
This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry and madness studies, as well as contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship. -- .
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- Pages:272 pages, 4 tables
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:17/05/2022
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- ISBN:9781526163790
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, 4 tables
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:17/05/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526163790
