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
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
In early New South Wales, madness was identified as a problem of colonial order, but there was littl...
The press was at the centre of the reform of the meaning of insanity, during its evolution from an e...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
Author's post-print draft. Final version published by Cambridge University Press; available online a...
This article revisits the notorious trial of William Windham, a wealthy young man accused of lunacy....
Feigned insanity has been ‘impressed upon the popular imagination from the earliest of times’, from ...
PhDVictorian society witnessed a transformation in the understanding and treatment of psychological ...
Early intervention in psychosis emerged in the 1980s and has gradually become a new paradigm in ment...
"Chapter 4: This chapter explores the ways historians can analyse museum collections to shed new lig...
Medicine and law were related from early times. This relation resulted as a necessity of protecting ...
This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses o...
The time is almost within the memory of living persons when it was deemed not only lawful but proper...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
In early New South Wales, madness was identified as a problem of colonial order, but there was littl...
The press was at the centre of the reform of the meaning of insanity, during its evolution from an e...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
The degree to which insanity or mental infirmity can be instrumentalized in legal debate is shaped b...
The history of psychiatry is not merely the history of psychiatrists; it is also the history of pati...
Author's post-print draft. Final version published by Cambridge University Press; available online a...
This article revisits the notorious trial of William Windham, a wealthy young man accused of lunacy....
Feigned insanity has been ‘impressed upon the popular imagination from the earliest of times’, from ...
PhDVictorian society witnessed a transformation in the understanding and treatment of psychological ...
Early intervention in psychosis emerged in the 1980s and has gradually become a new paradigm in ment...
"Chapter 4: This chapter explores the ways historians can analyse museum collections to shed new lig...
Medicine and law were related from early times. This relation resulted as a necessity of protecting ...
This paper traces the significance of the diagnosis of ‘moral insanity’ (and the related diagnoses o...
The time is almost within the memory of living persons when it was deemed not only lawful but proper...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived...
In early New South Wales, madness was identified as a problem of colonial order, but there was littl...
The press was at the centre of the reform of the meaning of insanity, during its evolution from an e...
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