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• Title:Madness on trial : a transatlantic history of English civil law and lunacy / James E. Moran.
  
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• Author/Creator:Moran, James E., author.
  
• Published/Created:Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.
  

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  • Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: KD7897 .M665 2019
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:c.1 On loan - Due on 05-06-2024
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mental health laws--England.
  Mental health laws--Great Britain--History.
  Mental health laws--New Jersey--History.
  Mental illness--History.
  Insanity (Law)
  
• Medical Subjects: Mental Competency--legislation & jurisprudence.
  Mentally Ill Persons--history.
  Commitment of Mentally Ill--history.
  Family Relations.
  Ownership--history.
  History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
  History, Modern 1601-.
  England.
  New Jersey.
  
• Description:xi, 257 pages ; 23 cm
  
• Series:Social histories of medicine.
  
• Summary:This book examines the powerful influence of civil law on understandings and responses to madness 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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-245) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781526133038 hardback
  1526133032
  9781526133052 (ePub ebook)
  9781526133045 (PDF ebook)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: civil law and madness in transatlantic context
  2. Suing for a lunatic: lunacy investigation law, 1320-1890
  3. Indefinite mental states: negotiating the legal definition of madness
  4. Trials of madness: family struggles over property in England
  5. Care and protection: managing madness in England
  6. Adantic crossing: lunacy law as colonial inheritance
  7. Family friends and neighbours: localising madness in New Jersey
  8. Asylum in the community: managing madness in New Jersey
  9. Orders of insanity: lunacy investigation law and the asylum reconsidered
  10. Conclusion.