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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England

Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England

Wise, Sarah

Paperback

General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 1619023229
ISBN13: 9781619023222
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: Jul 15 2014
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.


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