The poor law of lunacy : the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England /: the administration of pauper lunatics in mid-nineteenth-century England. (1999)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter Bartlett.
• Other Names: Bartlett, Peter
• Contents: 1 Socio-legal history and asylums; 2 Poor Law and asylum law as a single strand; 3 The legislation of pauper lunacy; 4 The pragmatics of coexistence: local officials and pauper lunacy; 5 Local administration: the creation of coherence among misfits ; 6 The Lunacy Commissioners and the soft centre of reform; 7 Conclusion: asylums, Poor Law and modernity; Appendices.
• Publisher Details: London Washington : Leicester University Press
• Publication Date: 1999
• Extent: 1 online resource (xix, 310 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 362.2/1/094209034; Mentally ill -- Institutional care -- Government policy -- England -- History -- 19th century; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- England -- History -- 19th century; Psychiatric hospitals -- England -- History -- 19th century; Poor laws -- England -- History -- 19th century; PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Health; PSYCHOLOGY -- Mental Illness; MEDICAL -- Mental Health; Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention; Poor laws; Psychiatric hospitals; Commitment of Mentally Ill -- England -- History -- Legislation; History, 19th Century -- England -- Legislation; Hospitals, Psychiatric -- England -- History -- Legislation; Poverty -- legislation & jurisprudence -- England; Public Policy -- England -- Legislation; England; Electronic books; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780567562173; 0567562174
• Related ISBNs: 0718501047; 9780718501044
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.