James Moran

Madness on trial

A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period in England and in New Jersey. -- .

Produktdetails

• Social Histories of Medicine
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9781526163790
• ISBN-10: 1526163799
• Artikelnr.: 62816543

Autorenporträt

James Moran is Professor in History at the University of Prince Edward Island

Inhaltsangabe

List of tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction: civil law and madness in
transatlantic context 2 Suing for a lunatic: lunacy investigation law,
1320-1890 3 Indefinite mental states: negotiating the legal definition of
madness 4 Trials of madness: family struggles over property in England 5
Care and protection: managing madness in England 6 Atlantic crossing:
lunacy law as colonial inheritance 7 Family, friends and neighbours:
localizing madness in New Jersey 8 Asylum in the community: managing
madness in New Jersey 9 Orders in lunacy: lunacy investigation law and the
asylum reconsidered 10 Conclusion Bibliography Index