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Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty, and the Mad-Doctors in England
by Sarah Wise
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Synopsis : 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? 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
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Author : Sarah Wise
Pages : 480 pages
Publisher : Counterpoint
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ISBN-10 : 1619021714
ISBN-13 : 9781619021716