Author: John OrdronauxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Commentaries on the Lunacy Laws of New York
Author: John OrdronauxPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Commentaries on the Lunacy Laws of New York
Author: John OrdronauxPublisher: Arkose Press
ISBN: 9781345994575
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
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Commentaries on the Lunacy Laws of New York, and on the Judicial Aspects of Insanity at Common Law an in Equity
Author: John OrdronauxPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334988110
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Excerpt from Commentaries on the Lunacy Laws of New York, and on the Judicial Aspects of Insanity at Common Law an in Equity: Including Procedure, as Expounded in England and the United States Through the ages, one increasing purpose runs And the thoughts of men are widened, with the process of the suns. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York
Author: New York (State). Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Commentaries on the Lunacy Laws of New York, and on the Judicial Aspects of Insanity at Common Law and in Equity, including Procedure, as Expounded in England and the United States
Author: OrdronauxSubject-index to the Law Books in the Wisconsin State Library
Author: Wisconsin. State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Certification of Insanity
Author: Filippo Maria SposiniPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031427424
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
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.
The American Journal of Insanity
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insanity (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Includes section "Book reviews".
Damnation Island
Author: Stacy HornPublisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
“A riveting character-driven dive into 19th-century New York and the extraordinary history of Blackwell’s Island.” —Laurie Gwen Shapiro, author of The Stowaway: A Young Man’s Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica On a two-mile stretch of land in New York’s East River, a 19th-century horror story was unfolding . . . Today we call it Roosevelt Island. Then, it was Blackwell’s, site of a lunatic asylum, two prisons, an almshouse, and a number of hospitals. Conceived as the most modern, humane incarceration facility the world ever seen, Blackwell’s Island quickly became, in the words of a visiting Charles Dickens, “a lounging, listless madhouse.” In the first contemporary investigative account of Blackwell’s, Stacy Horn tells this chilling narrative through the gripping voices of the island’s inhabitants, as well as the period’s officials, reformers, and journalists, including the celebrated Nellie Bly. Digging through city records, newspaper articles, and archival reports, Horn brings this forgotten history alive: there was terrible overcrowding; prisoners were enlisted to care for the insane; punishment was harsh and unfair; and treatment was nonexistent. Throughout the book, we return to the extraordinary Reverend William Glenney French as he ministers to Blackwell’s residents, battles the bureaucratic mazes of the Department of Correction and a corrupt City Hall, testifies at salacious trials, and in his diary wonders about man’s inhumanity to man. In Damnation Island, Stacy Horn shows us how far we’ve come in caring for the least fortunate among us—and reminds us how much work still remains.
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