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

by Sarah Wise

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1619021714
• ISBN13: 9781619021716
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
• Length: 473 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.3"