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Lunatics and idiots: mental disability, the community, and the poor law in North-East England, 1600-1800.
Despite recent advances in the history of madness, we still know little of the mad themselves. This "silence at the centre" of the subject might be due to over-reliance on printed sources or institutional records (especially of famous institutions such as Bethlem or the Retreat), both of which may be unrepresentative.' More fairly, the absence is probably due to the acute difficulties inherent ...
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Scotland's parochial asylums are unfamiliar institutional spaces. Representing the concrete manifestation of the collision between two spheres of legislation, the Poor Law and the Lunacy Law, six such asylums were constructed in the latter half of the nineteenth century. These sites expressed the enduring mandate of the Scottish Poor Law 1845 over the domain of 'madness'. They were institutions...
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JOHN KNOTT, Popular opposition to the 1834 Poor Law, London and Sydney, Croom Helm, 1986, 8vo, pp. 284, £19.95. Many distinct advances in scholarship have recently converged to re-emphasize the centrality of the Poor Law to the social history of English medicine. It has lately become clear, for the first time, just how extensive were disbursements for sick paupers under the parochial system of ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1900
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.2.2087.1864