Manual of Lunacy : A Handbook Relating to the Legal Care and Treatment of the Insane in the Public and Private Asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108063497
ISBN-13
9781108063494
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 20th, 2014
Print length
472 Pages
Weight
600 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Mental health servicesHistory of medicine
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A controversial psychiatrist, known for his involvement in the Jack the Ripper case, Lyttelton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844–1913) spent his entire life studying mental illness. Published in 1874, this is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of the mentally ill in the late nineteenth century.
A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844–1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety for his amateur detective work: he claimed to know the identity of Jack the Ripper. Published in 1874, this book examines, often through case descriptions, the legal framework within which the mentally ill were managed, and comparisons are made with the status quo elsewhere in the world. It is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of mental illness in the late nineteenth century.
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