The Certification of Insanity [electronic resource] : Local Origins and Imperial Consequences / by Filippo Maria Sposini.
The Certification of Insanity
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783031427428 978-3-031-42742-8
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/2873
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2023.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XI, 329 p. 30 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.
Dizi
Mental Health in Historical Perspective, 2634-6044
İçindekiler Notu
1.Introduction -- 2. The Medical Certificate: A Technology of Inspection, Identification, and Expertise -- 3. Upon the Following Grounds: The Victorian System of Certification -- 4. Building Expert Certifiers: The Rise of Psychological Physicians -- 5. Facts of Insanity Around the World: Towards an Imperial History of Lunacy Certificates -- 6. A Choreography of Consensus: The Use of Hybrids Templates in Ontario -- 7. Epilogue. .
Özet, vb.
This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the ‘Victorian system’. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person’s destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire. Filippo Maria Sposini is a researcher interested in the global history of madness, medicine, and law. He has published on the history of deviance in social sciences, the emergence of confinement procedures in Canada, and the production of psychiatric expertise in Victorian Britain. Previously, he studied at the University of Toronto in Canada and trained as a psychologist in Italy.
Konu
Science __ History.
Medicine __ History.
Psychology.
Social sciences __ History.
Imperialism.
Great Britain __ History.
History of Science.
History of Medicine.
History of Psychology.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
History of Britain and Ireland.
Medicine __ History.
Psychology.
Social sciences __ History.
Imperialism.
Great Britain __ History.
History of Science.
History of Medicine.
History of Psychology.
Imperialism and Colonialism.
History of Britain and Ireland.
