Legal madness in the nineteenth century
Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the interrelations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availability of nineteenth-century legal source material...
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| description | Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the interrelations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availability of nineteenth-century legal source materials relating to criminal insanity, mental incapacity, and the confinement of the insane. |
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| spelling | nottingham-16672020-05-04T20:32:39Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1667/ Legal madness in the nineteenth century Bartlett, Peter Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the interrelations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availability of nineteenth-century legal source materials relating to criminal insanity, mental incapacity, and the confinement of the insane. Oxford University Press 2001 Article PeerReviewed Bartlett, Peter (2001) Legal madness in the nineteenth century. Social History of Medicine, 14 (1). pp. 107-131. ISSN 0951-631X law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/107.full doi:10.1093/shm/14.1.107 doi:10.1093/shm/14.1.107 |
| spellingShingle | law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity Bartlett, Peter Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title | Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title_full | Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title_fullStr | Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title_full_unstemmed | Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title_short | Legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| title_sort | legal madness in the nineteenth century |
| topic | law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity |
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