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Manual of Lunacy - A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent (Paperback)
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Manual of Lunacy - A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine
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A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow
(1844-1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father,
Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental
illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity
in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career
attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked
to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety for his amateur
detective work: he claimed to know the identity of Jack the Ripper.
Published in 1874, this book examines, often through case
descriptions, the legal framework within which the mentally ill
were managed, and comparisons are made with the status quo
elsewhere in the world. It is an enlightening but often disturbing
insight into the institutional treatment of mental illness in the
late nineteenth century.
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