Provides a detailed overview of the laws surrounding mental health and the socio-legal, historical, sociological, and cultural issues related to them. This work explores the role of the law and medical treatments in regulating and controlling deviance, alongside the fundamental rights and liberties [...]

This historical account of the care of insanity outside formal instruction explores key issues relating to the social history of madness from 1750 to the present day. These include women and the social construciton of madness, the boarding out of lunatics by poor law authorities, familial care and t[...]