Download or read book The Poor Law of Lunacy written by Peter Bartlett and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1999-10-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most historians portray 19th-century county asylums as the exclusive realm of the asylum doctor, but Bartlett (law, U. of Nottingham) argues that they should be thought of as an aspect of English poor law, in which the medical superintendent had remarkably little power. He examines the place of the county asylum movement in the midcentury poor law debates and its legal and administrative regimes. Taking the Leicestershire asylum as a case study, he explores the role of poor law officers in admission processes, and relations between them and the staff and inspectors.
Download or read book Lunacy Law written by Danby Palmer Fry and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the State of Lunacy and the Legal Provision for the Insane written by John Thomas Arlidge and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Poor Law Policy written by Sidney Webb and published by LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO.,. This book was released on 2015-08-10 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Poor Law Policy The extent, the complication, and what may be thought the aridity of this analysis may probably daunt many who ought to read it. But if they will persevere, they will find that the severe and exact chronological record through which they are taken with regard to each class of paupers—the Able-bodied, the Vagrants, the Sick, the Women, the Children, the Aged, etc.—will presently reveal to them the current in which they are themselves moving, the stream of tendencies down which we are all floating, with a clearness of comprehension not otherwise to be obtained. It is here not a question of whether we approve of this evolution of policy, or of whether we should seek to promote or to resist it, but merely of what exactly it has been, and therefore now is. In view of the attention given to the Poor Law by many writers, it is, perhaps, a matter for surprise, that no such chronological analysis of policy has before been undertaken. Except in regard to a few special matters, it is impossible, in any published work, to trace the exact course of development of English Poor Law policy since the great revolution of 1834. The most systematic books upon the English Poor Law System, such as those by Dr. Aschrott and Monsieur Èmile Chevalier, have confined themselves, in the main, to a description of the contemporary state of things, with only comparatively brief and general accounts of how it came about. The popular manuals, such as the admirable little book of the Rev. T. W. Fowle, can naturally only give such scraps of history as are current. Even Mr. Mackay, in adding a third volume to Sir George Nicholls' History of the English Poor Law, has limited himself to a series of essays on particular points, without attempting any but the briefest chronological analysis of the evolution of policy of the Central Authority since 1834, upon which the whole administration of the Boards of Guardians depends. It is easy to understand this general reluctance to work out, from the materials themselves, the Poor Law history of the last three-quarters of a century. As with all nineteenth-century history, the extent, the variety, and the intricacy of the various sources are simply overwhelming. The number of official records—Statutes, Orders, Circulars, Minutes, Reports, Letters, etc.—dealt with for the present small volume (although we have confined ourselves in the main to the publications of the Central Authority itself, and have not been able to consult the manuscript records and letter-books of more than a score of the Boards of Guardians) runs into, literally, tens of thousands.
Download or read book Administrations of Lunacy written by Mab Segrest and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2021-04-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Whew! They going to send around here and tie you up and drag you off to Milledgeville. Them fat blue police chasing tomcats around alleys." —Berenice in The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers A scathing and original look at the racist origins of the field of modern psychiatry, told through the story of what was once the largest mental institution in the world, by the prize-winning author of Memoir of a Race Traitor After a decade of research, Mab Segrest, whose Memoir of a Race Traitor forever changed the way we think about race in America, turns sanity itself inside-out in a stunning book that will become an instant classic. In December 1841, the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum was founded on land taken from the Cherokee nation in the then-State capitol of Milledgeville. A hundred years later, it had become the largest insane asylum in the world with over ten thousand patients. To this day, it is the site of the largest graveyard of disabled and mentally ill people in the world. In April, 1949, Ebony magazine reported that for black patients, "the situation approaches Nazi concentration camp standards . . . unbelievable this side of Dante's Inferno." Georgia's state hospital was at the center of psychiatric practice and the forefront of psychiatric thought throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in America—centuries during which the South invented, fought to defend, and then worked to replace the most developed slave culture since the Roman Empire. A landmark history of a single insane asylum at Milledgeville, Georgia, A Peculiar Inheritance reveals how modern-day American psychiatry was forged in the traumas of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction, when African Americans carrying "no histories" entered from Freedmen's Bureau Hospitals and home counties wracked with Klan terror. This history set the stage for the eugenics and degeneracy theories of the twentieth century, which in turn became the basis for much of Nazi thinking in Europe. Segrest's masterwork will forever change the way we think about our own minds.
Download or read book The General Orders of the Poor Law Commissioners the Poor Law Board and the Local Government Board Relating to the Poor Law written by William Cunningham Glen and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poor Law Magazine and Parochial Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magistrates Cases Relating to the Poor Law the Criminal Law Licensing and Other Subjects Chiefly Connected with the Duties and Office of Magistrates written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Law of and Practice in Lunacy written by Sir Alexander Wood Renton and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inconvenient People written by Sarah Wise and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad–doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of "science," capable of being used by conniving relatives, "designing families" and scheming neighbors to destroy people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could provide their survivors with money or property or other less frivolous benefits. Girl Interrupted in only a recent example. And reversing this sort of diagnosis and incarceration became increasingly more difficult, as even the most temperate attempt to leave these "homes" or "hospitals" was deemed "crazy." Kept in a madhouse, one became a little mad, as Jack Nicholson and Ken Kesey explain in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In this sadly terrifying, emotionally moving, and occasionally hilarious book, twelve cases of contested lunacy are offered as examples of the shifting arguments regarding what constituted sanity and insanity. They offer unique insight into the fears of sexuality, inherited madness, greed and fraud, until public feeling shifted and turned against the rising alienists who would challenge liberty and freedom of people who were perhaps simply "difficult," but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade. This fascinating book is filled with stories almost impossible to believe but wildly engaging, a book one will not soon forget.
Download or read book The Poor Law Magazine and Journal of Public Health for Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Poor Law Magazine for Scotland written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on Lunacy and Mental Disorder and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Madness and Civilization written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.
Download or read book Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress written by Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Poor Laws and Relief of Distress and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report from the Select Committee on Poor Law Scotland written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select committee on poor law (Scotland) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poor Law Magazine and Local Government Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
