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Section1: Background

(1.1) Section1: Background

(1.2) Early views on madness

(1.3) Moral management of the insane

(1.4) Reflection

(1.5) Why have the 'insane' been feared and marginalised through the ages?

(1.6) Christian beliefs: demonic possession

(1.7) Audio vignette: ‘Suffocation of the mother'

(1.8) Audio vignette: ‘Suffocation of the mother'

(1.9) Foetal development and mental health

(1.10) Reflection

(1.11) Transcultural links with the past

(1.12) Galenic and humoral theory

(1.13) Galenic and humoral theory

(1.14) Early neuroscientific theories

(1.15) Early neuroscientific theories

(1.16) Philosophical influences

(1.17) Philosophical influences

(1.18) Audio: Hartley's views on behaviour

(1.19) Audio: Hartley's views on behaviour

(1.20) Suggested answers

(1.21) Hartley and Erasmus Darwin

(1.22) Psychological theories and moral therapy

(1.23) Psychological theories and moral therapy

(1.24) Audio: Spring Vale 1808–183

(1.25) Audio: Spring Vale 1808

(1.26) Suggested answers

(1.27) Moral therapy

(1.28) Moral therapy

(1.29) Reflection

(1.30) Parallels between the Enlightenment and the 21st century

(1.31) Section 1: Recap

(1.32) Section 1: Summary

 

Section 2: The regulation of madness before 1800

(2.1) Section 2: The regulation of madness before 1800

(2.2) How the insane were disposed of before 1800

(2.3) Legislation and treatment before 1800

(2.4) The criminally insane

(2.5) The criminally insane

(2.6) Audio: Rex V Arnold (1723)

(2.7) Audio: Rex V Arnold (1723)

(2.8) Suggested answers

(2.9) The insanity plea

(2.10) The insanity plea

(2.11) Audio exercise: the trial of Earl Ferrers (1760)

(2.12) Audio exercise: the trial of Earl Ferrers (1760)

(2.13) Suggested answers

(2.14) The insanity plea

(2.15) Reflection

(2.16) Reflection

(2.17) The Hadfield trial: Old Bailey, 26 June 1800

(2.18) What happened to Hadfield?

(2.19) The vagrant lunatic and the insane poor

(2.20) The vagrant lunatic and the insane poor

(2.21) Reflection

(2.22) Reflection

(2.23) The Poor Law Act of 1601

(2.24) The ‘impotent’ poor

(2.25) Reflection

(2.26) Reflection

(2.27) Audio: Rex V Turlington (1761)

(2.28) Audio: Rex V Turlington (1761)

(2.29) Suggested Answers

(2.30) The writ of Habeus Corpus

(2.31) Legislations and private madhouses up to 1800

(2.32) Legislations and private madhouses up to 1800

(2.33) Reflection

(2.34) Reflection

(2.35) The 1774 Act for regulating madhouses

(2.36) The 1774 Act for regulating madhouses

(2.37) Section 2: recap

(2.38) Section 2: Summary

 

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Appendix

A quick guide to mental health legislation in the 19th century

(1.8) Transcript: 'Suffocation of the mother'

(1.19) Transcript: Hartley's views on behaviour

(1.25) Transcript: Spring Vale

(2.7) Transcript: Rex V Arnold (1723)

(2.12) Transcript: the trial of Earl Ferrers (1760)

(2.28) Transcript: Rex V Turlington (1761)

 

 


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