TY - BOOK ID - 85472116 TI - Manual of lunacy : a handbook relating to the legal care and treatment of the insane in the public and private asylums of Great Britain, Ireland, United States of America, and the Continent PY - 2014 SN - 1139626620 1108063497 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Psychiatric hospitals. KW - Mentally ill KW - Insane KW - Mental illness KW - Mental patients KW - Mentally disordered KW - Sick KW - People with mental disabilities KW - Hospitals KW - Insane asylums KW - Mental hospitals KW - Mental institutions KW - Psychiatry in general hospitals KW - Asylums KW - Mental health facilities KW - Specialty hospitals KW - Care. KW - Law and legislation. KW - Patients KW - Care and treatment KW - Psychiatric services UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85472116 AB - A controversial psychiatrist, Lyttleton Stewart Forbes Winslow (1844-1913) grew up around the lunatic asylums run by his father, Forbes B. Winslow, who was a specialist in the treatment of mental illness, establishing also medical grounds for the plea of insanity in criminal defence. Lyttleton spent much of his own medical career attempting to show the courts that crime and alcoholism were linked to mental illness, though he later gained notoriety for his amateur detective work: he claimed to know the identity of Jack the Ripper. Published in 1874, this book examines, often through case descriptions, the legal framework within which the mentally ill were managed, and comparisons are made with the status quo elsewhere in the world. It is an enlightening but often disturbing insight into the institutional treatment of mental illness in the late nineteenth century. ER -