The Certification of Insanity, 1st ed. 2023 Local Origins and Imperial Consequences Mental Health in Historical Perspective Series
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.
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.
Examines how the ‘Victorian system’ of certifying the insane has informed today’s mental health laws and documents
Offers the first systematic attempt to study the certification of insanity from a comparative viewpoint
Draws upon case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific
Date de parution : 12-2023
Ouvrage de 329 p.
14.8x21 cm