Concept
Mentally ill - Commitment and detention
Images
Catalogue
- Books
- Online
Cursory remarks on legislative regulation of the insane : and its probable influence on their physical and moral condition : with observations on some defects in the present system / by George Man Burrows M.D. F.L.S.
Burrows, George Man, 1771-1846.Date: 1819- Pictures
Dr. Monro (physician to Bedlam) examining the straight jacketed and dishevelled Charles James Fox; representing the fall of the Coalition. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1784.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.Date: 4 April 1784Reference: 12171i- Books
- Online
Remarks on the plea of insanity, and on the mangement of criminal lunatics / by William Wood.
Wood, William, 1816-1892.Date: 1851- Books
Report from the Select Committee on Lunacy Law : together with the proceedings of the committee, minutes of evidence, and appendix.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Lunacy Law.Date: 1877- Books
- Online
A concise history of the entire abolition of mechanical restraint in the treatment of the insane ; and of the introduction, success, and final triumph of the nonrestraint system: together with a reprint of a lecture delivered on the subject in the year 1838; and appendices, containing an account of the controversies and claims connected therewith / By Robert Gardiner Hill.
Hill, Robert Gardiner, 1811-1878.Date: 1857