Madness on Trial - A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy (Hardcover)

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. -- .

General

Imprint:	Manchester University Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Social Histories of Medicine
Release date:	May 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	James Moran
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
ISBN-13:	978-1-5261-3303-8
Categories:	Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Legal history Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-5261-3303-2
Barcode:	9781526133038

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