Lyttleton Forbes Winslow, Forbes Winslow

Manual of Lunacy

A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain,

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1874, an enlightening yet disturbing insight into the treatment of the mentally ill in the late nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9781108063494
• ISBN-10: 1108063497
• Artikelnr.: 40552157

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. History of lunacy legislation
2. Present state of lunacy in England and Wales
3. Epitome of the Lunacy Act
4. On the management of asylums and licensed houses
5. Private patients
6. Single patients confined in unlicensed private houses
7. Pauper lunatics
8. Commissions in lunacy and chancery lunatics
9. St Luke's and Bethlehem hospitals for lunatics
10. Liabilities incurred by those concerned in the confinement of persons alleged to be insane
11. Lunacy in Scotland
12. Lunacy in Ireland
13. Lunacy in France
14. Lunacy in Belgium
15. Lunacy in Germany
16. Lunacy in the United States of America
17. Lunacy in Russia
18. Recent lunacy statistics and instructions
19. Definitions and explanation of terms
Appendices
Index.