Madness on trial
A transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy
by James Moran, Keir Waddington
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This book reinterprets the history of madness by examining the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in the North American territory of New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. Lunacy investigation law (that body of laws encompassing trials in lunacy, chancery court proceedings, proceedings in guardianship and trials of traverse) had its origins in fourteenth century England. By the eighteenth century, English architects of the civil law had developed a sophisticated legal response to those among the propertied classes who suffered from madness. Lunacy investigation law was also transported successfully along imperial pathways and built into the legal frameworks of several colonies, including New Jersey. In New Jersey a rare and extensive collection of lunacy trials are explored to uncover how customary understandings and responses to madness were tightly connected to the structures of civil law. The richness of these legal documents allows for an assessment of how civil law, customary responses and institutional alternatives to madness were balanced in this North American setting before and during the asylum era. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in the history of law, medicine, psychiatry and madness/mental illness, as well as to those in the mental health and legal professions concerned about contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.
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This book reinterprets the history of madness by examining the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness in England and in the North American territory of New Jersey. The influence of civil law on the history of madness has not hitherto been of major academic investigation. Lunacy investigation law (that body of laws encompassing trials in lunacy, chancery court proceedings, proceedings in guardianship and trials of traverse) had its origins in fourteenth century England. By the eighteenth century, English architects of the civil law had developed a sophisticated legal response to those among the propertied classes who suffered from madness. Lunacy investigation law was also transported successfully along imperial pathways and built into the legal frameworks of several colonies, including New Jersey. In New Jersey a rare and extensive collection of lunacy trials are explored to uncover how customary understandings and responses to madness were tightly connected to the structures of civil law. The richness of these legal documents allows for an assessment of how civil law, customary responses and institutional alternatives to madness were balanced in this North American setting before and during the asylum era. This book will be highly relevant to scholars interested in the history of law, medicine, psychiatry and madness/mental illness, as well as to those in the mental health and legal professions concerned about contemporary issues in mental capacity and guardianship.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date May 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526133038 / 1526133032
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade; College/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- SeriesSocial Histories of Medicine
- Reference Code11051
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