Legal madness in the nineteenth century.
Legal sources remain under-exploited in the history of madness, and the legal character of some documents is sometimes unrecognized. This article examines the inter-relations between legal and medical histories of madness, and discusses use and availability of nineteenth-century legal source material relating to criminal insanity, mental incapacity, and the confinement of the insane.
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Department of Law, University of Notingham, UK. peter.bartlett@nottingham.ac.uk
D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D007603:Jurisprudence / Q000266:history*; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D006113:United Kingdom