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Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy

Madness on Trial: A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy

Moran, James

Hardcover

Series: Social Histories of Medicine, Book 23

Medical ReferenceGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1526133032
ISBN13: 9781526133038
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: May 13 2019
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. This body of law, established and developed over a five hundred year period, greatly influenced how those from England's propertied classes understood and responded to madness. Moreover, the civil law governing the response to madness in England was successfully exported into several of its colonies, including New Jersey. Drawing on a well-preserved and rare collection of trials in lunacy in New Jersey, this book reveals the important ties of civil law, local custom and perceptions of madness in transatlantic perspectives. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in law, medicine, psychiatry and madness studies, as well as contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.

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