Madness on Trial

A Transatlantic History of English Civil Law and Lunacy

By:

James Moran

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Hardback

Series:

Social Histories of Medicine

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This book examines the role of civil law in determining mental capacity over a five hundred year period 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.

Author Biography:

James Moran is Professor in History at the University of Prince Edward Island -- .

Release date Australia

May 13th, 2019

Author

James Moran

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

4 tables

Pages

272

Series

Social Histories of Medicine

Dimensions

138x216x16

ISBN-13

9781526133038

Product ID

29199260

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