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The certification of insanity = local origins and imperial consequences /

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Title/Author:	The certification of insanity/ by Filippo Maria Sposini.
Reminder of title:	local origins and imperial consequences /
Author:	Sposini, Filippo Maria.
Published:	Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland : : 2023.,
Description:	xi, 329 p. :illustrations (some col.), digital ; : 24 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Insanity (Law) - History - 19th century. - Great Britain -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42742-8
ISBN:	9783031427428

The certification of insanity = local origins and imperial consequences /
Sposini, Filippo Maria.

The certification of insanitylocal origins and imperial consequences /[electronic resource] :by Filippo Maria Sposini. - Cham :Springer Nature Switzerland :2023. - xi, 329 p. :illustrations (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Mental health in historical perspective,2634-6044. - Mental health in historical perspective..

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.

This book represents the first systematic study of the certification of lunacy in the British Empire. Considering a variety of legal, archival, and published sources, it traces the origins and dissemination of a peculiar method for determining mental unsoundness defined as the 'Victorian system'. Shaped by the dynamics surrounding the clandestine committal of wealthy Londoners in private madhouses, this system featured three distinctive tenets: standardized forms, independent medical examinations, and written facts of insanity. Despite their complexity, Victorian certificates achieved a remarkable success. Not only did they survive in the UK for more than a century, but they also served as a model for the development of mental health laws around the world. By the start of the Second World War, more than seventy colonial and non-colonial jurisdictions adopted the Victorian formula for making lunacy official with some countries still relying on it to this very day. Using case studies from Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, this book charts the temporal and geographical trajectory of an imperial technology used to determine a person's destiny. Shifting the focus from metropolitan policies to colonial dynamics, and from macro developments to micro histories, it explores the perspectives of families, doctors, and public officials as they began to deal with the delicate business of certification. This book will be of interest to scholars working on mental health policy, the history of medicine, disability studies, and the British Empire. 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.

ISBN: 9783031427428

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-42742-8doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1434632
Insanity (Law)
--History--Great Britain--19th century.

LC Class. No.: KD7897

Dewey Class. No.: 346.0130874

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