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Revue Française de Civilisation Britannique, 2019 The creation of a specific child and adolescent mental health service within the NHS was influenced by a number of factors including changes in adult mental health policies, the evolution of society’s attitudes towards children and parenting, and a ...
Susan V. Barrett
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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History, EarlyView.Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
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AMERICAN LUNATIC ASYLUMS. [PDF]
The Lancet, 1876 Sir,—I have received letters and journals from several medical superintendents of asylums for the insane in the United States, calling my attention to a leader in “The Lancet” of November 13th last. My correspondents feel much aggrieved with that article, and have asked me to publish the truth as I have recently observed it as to the treatment of the ...
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The Supreme Court of Canada interprets the fitness to stand trial test in R v. Bharwani
Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract At the core of the common law, rooted in fairness, is the principle that an accused must be “fit” or “competent” to answer charges pursued by the state. Fitness rules vary considerably across jurisdictions but generally share the requirement that the accused be able to actively participate in the conduct of their defense.
Dennis Curry, Jason Quinn
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Kenya’s New Lunatic Express: The Standard Gauge Railway
African Studies Quarterly, 2020 The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to integrate Africa into an ambitious Chinese-constructed infrastructure network that seeks to link the economies of participating countries to that of China’s. However, serious concerns about its cost for the host
Ian Taylor
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“Ridiculous Charlatans or Lunatic Neck Cutters”: Image of Spiritism in Republican Brazil
Ibero-Americana Pragensia, 2018 With the ultimate triumph of liberal Republicanism in 1889 in Brazil and the adoption of a constitution promoting the separation of Church and State, the formerly dominant Roman Catholic Church entered a long period of struggle to recover its lost ...
František Kalenda
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Lunatic Asylum in the Workhouse: St Peter’s Hospital, Bristol, 1698–1861
Medicina e historia, 2017 In recent years there has been growing acknowledgement of the place of workhouses within the range of institutional provision for mentally disordered people in nineteenth-century England.
Leonard Smith
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Liberalism as a Way of Political Life: The Case of George Brandis
Australian Journal of Politics &History, EarlyView.The lawyer, politician, and diplomat George Brandis was the leading intellectual representative of moderate or “small‐l” liberalism in the contemporary Liberal Party. He criticised John Howard for an ad hoc balancing of liberalism and conservatism. Brandis believed the Liberal Party necessarily included conservatives, but to him their role was to be a ...
Geoffrey Robinson
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Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2013 Until the beginning of the 19th century, psychiatric patients did not receive specialized treatment. The problem that was posed by the presence of psychiatric patients in the Santas Casas de Misericórdia and the social pressure from this issue culminated
Antonio E. Nardi +3 more
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