Name: Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
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Author: Sarah Wise
ISBN: 9781619023222

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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Counterpoint

Author

Sarah Wise

Year

2014

Language

English

Pages

473

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781619023222

Synopsis "Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England "

The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is as old as our first interactions as human beings. Every one of us has described some other person as crazy or insane, and most all of us have had periods, moments at least, of madness. But it took the confluence of the law and medical science, mad-doctors, alienists, priests and barristers, to raise the matter to a level of “science,” capable of being used by conniving relatives, “designing families” and scheming neighbors to destroy people who found themselves in the way, people whose removal could provide their survivors with money or property or other less frivolous benefits. Girl Interrupted in only a recent example. And reversing this sort of diagnosis and incarceration became increasingly more difficult, as even the most temperate attempt to leave these “homes” or “hospitals” was deemed “crazy.” Kept in a madhouse, one became a little mad, as Jack Nicholson and Ken Kesey explain in One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. In this sadly terrifying, emotionally moving, and occasionally hilarious book, twelve cases of contested lunacy are offered as examples of the shifting arguments regarding what constituted sanity and insanity. They offer unique insight into the fears of sexuality, inherited madness, greed and fraud, until public feeling shifted and turned against the rising alienists who would challenge liberty and freedom of people who were perhaps simply “difficult,” but were turned into victims of this unscrupulous trade.This fascinating book is filled with stories almost impossible to believe but wildly engaging, a book one will not soon forget.

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