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

By:

Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine

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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.

Release date NZ

March 20th, 2014

Author

Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Preface by Forbes Winslow

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

472

Series

Cambridge Library Collection - History of Medicine

Dimensions

140x216x27

ISBN-13

9781108063494

Product ID

21337379

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