Legal madness in the nineteenth century

Bartlett, Peter (2001) Legal madness in the nineteenth century. Social History of Medicine, 14 (1). pp. 107-131. ISSN 0951-631X

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Abstract

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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Additional Information:This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Social History of Medicine following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Social History of Medicine, 14(1) (2001), 107-131, is available online at: http://shm.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/1/107.full
Uncontrolled Keywords:law legal sources madness lunacy law nineteenth century insanity incapacity
Schools/Departments:Faculty of Social Sciences, Law and Education > School of Law
ID Code:1667
Deposited By:Bartlett, Peter
Deposited On:21 Aug 2012 09:38
Last Modified:21 Aug 2012 09:38

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