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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Wise, Sarah.     Subjects     Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatry -- History.     Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatric hospitals -- History.     Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Wise, Sarah.       by title:      Inconvenient people ...       by call number:      616.89 W813i     Search the Web     Wise, Sarah.     Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatry -- History.     Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatric hospitals -- History.     Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.     London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.       MARC Display

Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England / Sarah Wise. by Wise, Sarah. Bodley Head, 2012. Call #: 616.89 W813i Subjects Psychiatry -- Great Britain -- Methodology -- History -- 19th century.   Psychiatry -- History.   Psychiatric hospitals -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Psychiatric hospitals -- History.   Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Insanity (Law) -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.   London (England) -- Social conditions -- 19th century. ISBN:  9781619023222 (pbk.) 9781847921123 (hc.) 1847921124 (hc.) Description:  xxii, 473 p. : ill., portraits ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents:  1. Being "burrowsed" -- 2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen -- 3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society -- 4. "Oh hail, holy love!" -- 5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone" -- 6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting" -- 7. The woman in yellow -- 8. Juries in revolt -- 9. Dialoguing with the unseen -- 10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!" -- Epilogue: The savage new century. Summary:  "The phenomenon of false allegations of mental illness is an old one. 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"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Nonfiction 616.89 W813i Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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