Legal madness in the nineteenth century

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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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Main Author:	Bartlett, Peter
Format:	Article
Published:	Oxford University Press 2001
Subjects:	law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1667/

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