Janet Weston

Looking After Miss Alexander

Care, Mental Capacity, and the Court of Protection in Mid-Twentieth-Century England

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In 1939, fifty-nine-year-old Beatrice Alexander was found incapable of managing her own property and affairs, despite her claims that she was perfectly well. A history of mental capacity law in twentieth-century England and Wales, Looking After Miss Alexander examines ideas of mental illness, citizenship, care, and the role of the state.

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Produktdetails

• States, People, and the History of Social Change
• Verlag: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 229mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9780228014683
• ISBN-10: 0228014689
• Artikelnr.: 63765019

Autorenporträt

Janet Weston is assistant professor at the Centre for History in Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.